Look up Ball, ball, or balls in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A ball is a spherical round object with various uses.

Ball(s) or The Ball may also refer to:

Places

• Ball (crater), a crater on the Moon
• Ball, Cornwall, a hamlet in the north of Cornwall, England, UK
• Ball, Louisiana, a town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, US
• Balls (mountain range), a mountain range in Madera County, California, US

People with the surname

• Ball (surname), a list of people with the surname Ball
• Ed Balls, a British politician
• Katy Balls, a British journalist
• William Lawrence Balls, a British botanist

Anatomy

• Ball (foot), a bottom part of the foot
• Balls, bollocks, bullocks, or cojones, a slang word for testicles, which may also apply to chutzpah or bravery

Arts and entertainment

Brands and enterprises

• Ball (St. Paul's Churchyard), an historical bookseller in London
• Ball Corporation, a U.S. packaging manufacturer and metal can maker
• Ball Watch Company

Computing and technology

• BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library), a versatile set of C++ classes for molecular modelling
• Blog Assisted Language Learning, an application of computer-assisted language learning

Schools

• Ball High School, a public secondary school in Galveston, Texas, US
• Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, US

Social gatherings

• Ball (dance party)
• The Ball (event), a NYC Jewish singles event on Christmas Eve

Sports

• Ball (rhythmic gymnastics)
• Baseball (ball), the physical object
  • Ball (baseball statistics), a pitch outside the strike zone and not swung at by the batter
• Basketball (ball)
• Cricket ball, the physical object
  • Ball (cricket) or delivery, a single action of bowling
• Football (ball)
  • Ball (association football)
  • Gaelic ball
  • Ball (gridiron football)
  • Rugby ball
• Golf ball
• Handball (ball)
• Pickleball, the ball used in the game
  • Ball!, a warning of an errant ball on the court
• Softball (ball)
• Tennis ball
• Whiffle ball or wiffle ball

Other uses

• Ball (bearing), special highly spherical and smooth balls, most commonly used in ball bearings
• Ball (mathematics), the solid interior of a sphere
• Ball of wax example, also known as the wax argument, a thought experiment by René Descartes in his Meditations on First Philosophy
• Boule de Genève (Geneva ball), a type of pendant watch in the shape of a small ball
• Times Square Ball or the Ball
• Round shot or cannonball or ball, a round projectile fired from guns and cannons

See also

• Bawl (disambiguation)
• Bawls, a high-caffeine soft drink
• Thermoball, a swarm of insects (especially bees) in collective defense against larger insects, such as predatory wasps
• Ballz, a 1994 fighting game
• Category:Balls, an index of game balls and other types of round balls
• All pages with titles beginning with Ball
• All pages with titles containing ball