Billiard Billiards or Pocket Billiards
Posted on Feb 22, 2008 under Billiards-Pool History | No CommentBilliard or billiards (as a noun, adjective or verb) may refer to:
- A billiard, a type of shot in cue sports (such as pool, carom billiards and snooker)
Billiards (as a noun or adjective) may refer to:
- Cue sports in general, including pool, carom billiards, snooker, etc.
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- Carom billiards (also known as French billiards) games in general (a chiefly non-British usage, in the US, the British Commonwealth, etc., but rarely in England itself)
- The specific game of English billiards (a chiefly British usage)
- Pocket billiards (pool) games (such as eight-ball, nine-ball and snooker) in general (a chiefly colloquial American usage)
- Italian billiards or five-pins
- Russian billiards or Russian pyramid
- Artistic billiards