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Cue sports

Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a table covered in cloth (usually baize), bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. Cue sports, a category of stick sports, may collectively be referred to as billiards, though this term has more…

History, Equipment & Snooker games

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Contact
No
Equipment
Billiard balls, billiard table, cue sticks
First played
15th-century Europe, with roots in ground billiards
Highest governing body
World Confederation of Billiards Sports
Mixed-sex
Sometimes in separate leagues/divisions
Olympic
No

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History

As a sport

Equipment

Major games

Carom games

  • Five-ball Five-ball billiards?action=edit&redlink=1
  • Nine-ball Nine-ball billiards?action=edit&redlink=1

Snooker games

Games with pockets and caroms

Obstacle and target games

Disk games

Cueless games

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Cue sports

Nodes166
Edges165
Triples39
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012048
Components1

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Cue sports

Top relations

related to history · 5
Cue sports → All, Cue, French, The, This
see also · 4
Cue sports → Cue, FameHustlingCue, Glossary, Hall
Contact · 1
Cue sports → No
Equipment · 1
Cue sports → Billiard balls, billiard table, cue sticks
First played · 1
Cue sports → 15th-century Europe, with roots in ground billiards
Highest governing body · 1
Cue sports → World Confederation of Billiards Sports
Mixed-sex · 1
Cue sports → Sometimes in separate leagues/divisions
Olympic · 1
Cue sports → No
Team members · 1
Cue sports → Single opponents, doubles or teams
Type · 1
Cue sports → Indoor, table

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Important terminology

cue billiards pool balls games ball snooker game table billiard pocket used straight tables played players cloth eight-ball nine-ball points

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Cue sportsContactNo1.00infobox
Cue sportsEquipmentBilliard balls, billiard table, cue sticks1.00infobox
Cue sportsFirst played15th-century Europe, with roots in ground billiards1.00infobox
Cue sportsHighest governing bodyWorld Confederation of Billiards Sports1.00infobox
Cue sportsMixed-sexSometimes in separate leagues/divisions1.00infobox
Cue sportsOlympicNo1.00infobox
Cue sportsTeam membersSingle opponents, doubles or teams1.00infobox
Cue sportsTypeIndoor, table1.00infobox
Cue sportsVenueBilliard hall or home billiard room1.00infobox
Cue sportsWorld Games2001 – present1.00infobox
eight-ballinstance ofgames0.80text
nine-ballinstance ofgames0.80text

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