Ball (disambiguation)
A ball is a spherical round object with various uses.
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Ball or Balls may also refer to:
Places
- Ball (crater), a crater on the Moon
- Ball, Cornwall, a hamlet in the north of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
- Ball, Louisiana, a town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Balls (mountain range), a mountain range in Madera County, California, United States
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
- William Ball (suffragist) (born 1862) was a British workers union member, jailed and force-fed for his support of women's suffrage
Anatomy
- Ball (anatomy), a bottom part of the foot
- Balls, bullocks, or cojones, a slang word for testicles, which may also apply to chutzpah or bravery
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
(Chronological)
- Balls (film) (Swedish: Farsan), a 2010 Swedish comedy film
- Le Bal (1931 film), a French film
- The Ball (1958 film) (Mingea), a Romanian film
- Le Bal (1983 film), an Algerian film
- The Ball (2011), an Australian documentary, runner up for the 2011 AACTA Award for Best Documentary Under One Hour
Games
- Ball (Game & Watch), a game for the Nintendo Game & Watch
- The Ball (video game), a 2010 video game
Groups and labels
- Balls (rock band), a British rock band who performed from 1969 to 1971
- B.A.L.L., an American alternative rock band
Albums and EPs
- Balls (Elizabeth Cook album) (2007)
- Ball (Iron Butterfly album) (1969)
- Ball (Widespread Panic album) (2003)
- Balls (EP), a 1991 EP by Guttermouth
- Balls (Sparks album) (2000)
- Balls, a 2003 album by Napoleon Murphy Brock
Songs
- "Ball" (song), a 2012 song by T.I. from Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head
- "Ball", a song by Susumu Hirasawa from Sword-Wind Chronicle BERSERK Original Soundtrack
- "Ball", a 2010 song by DJ Khaled from Victory
- "The Ball", a song from the musical Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
- "Un bal", the second movement of Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Balls (TV channel), a defunct Filipino sports channel
- The Ball (play), a 1632 play by James Shirley
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, United States
- Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, United States
Social gatherings
- Ball (dance party)
- Society ball, a type of formal dance party
- The Ball (event), a NYC Jewish singles event on Christmas Eve
- Times Square Ball or the Ball
Sports
- Ball (baseball statistics), a pitch at which the batter does not swing and that does not pass through the strike zone
- Ball (football)
- Ball (rhythmic gymnastics)
- Baseball (ball), the spherical piece of equipment that is thrown and batted in a game of baseball
- Basketball
- Cricket ball
- Delivery (cricket) or ball
- Football
- Handball
- Soccer 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
- Round shot or cannonball or ball, a round projectile fired from guns and cannons
See also
- 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
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