List of ball games

This is a list of ball games which are popular games or sports involving some type of ball or similar object. These games can be grouped by general objective, sometimes indicating a common origin either of a game itself or of its basic idea:

• Bat-and-ball games, such as cricket and baseball.
• Racquet and ball games, such as tennis, squash, racquetball and ball badminton.
• Hand and ball-striking games, such as various handball codes, rebound handball and 4 square.
• Goal games, such as forms of hockey (except ice hockey which uses a hockey puck), basketball, water polo and all forms of football or lacrosse.
• Net games, such as volleyball and sepak.