Ball (disambiguation)

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A ball is a spherical round object with various uses.

Ball or Balls may also refer to:

Sports

• Baseball (ball), the spherical piece of equipment that is thrown and batted in a game of baseball
• 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)
• Cricket ball
• Delivery (cricket) or ball
• Tennis ball

Social gatherings

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

Places

• Ball (crater), a crater on the Moon
• Ball, Cornwall, a hamlet in the north of Cornwall, England
• 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
• William Lawrence Balls, a British botanist

Anatomy

• Ball (anatomy), a bottom part of the foot
• Balls, slang word for testicles

Arts, entertainment, and media

Brands and enterprises

• Ball Corporation, a U.S. packaging manufacturer
• 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

In other uses

• Ball (bearing), special highly spherical and smooth balls, most commonly used in ball bearings
• Ball (mathematics), the solid interior of a sphere
• Round shot 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
• Category:Balls, an index of game balls and other types of round balls
• All pages beginning with Ball
• All pages with a title containing ball