Billiards

Of table game.

Any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls.

This concept's ID is @1~2557

Pool

  • break 0 facts

    The opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool.

  • carom 0 facts

    A shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other.

  • masse 0 facts

    A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the...

  • miscue 0 facts

    A faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball.