A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards...
33 KB (3,955 words) - 01:10, 25 August 2024
Carom billiards (redirect from Carambole billiard)
family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score points or...
26 KB (2,998 words) - 22:43, 14 October 2024
Dynamical billiards (redirect from Dynamical billiard table)
reflections with the boundary (a geodesic if the Riemannian metric of the billiard table is not flat). All reflections are specular: the angle of incidence just...
28 KB (3,684 words) - 02:14, 16 June 2024
Cue sports (redirect from Billiard chalk)
played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions...
42 KB (5,019 words) - 01:11, 25 August 2024
Look up Billiard, billiard, or billiards in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Billiard or billiards may refer to: A billiard, a type of shot in cue sports...
2 KB (330 words) - 11:42, 15 August 2024
table (The term "billiard room" or "pool room" may also be used for a business providing public billiards tables; see billiard hall.). The billiard room...
4 KB (431 words) - 09:55, 3 March 2024
Pool (cue sports) (redirect from Pocket billiard)
Pool is the name given to a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. Of...
21 KB (2,589 words) - 22:37, 1 October 2024
Glossary of cue sports terms (redirect from Billiard glossary)
billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table,...
376 KB (45,778 words) - 02:40, 20 September 2024
Russian pyramid (redirect from Russian Billiard)
билья́рд, russky bilyard), is a form of billiards played on a large billiard table with narrow pockets. It is played across Russia and several former Soviet/Eastern...
10 KB (1,137 words) - 22:01, 30 March 2024
Three-cushion billiards (redirect from Three cushion billiard)
Award-winning Spanish film Seven Billiard Tables (Siete mesas de billar francés), about a woman who inherits a troubled billiard hall and is searching for her...
14 KB (1,630 words) - 12:27, 21 June 2024
Seven Billiard Tables (Spanish: Siete mesas de billar francés) is a 2007 Spanish sports comedy-drama film directed by Gracia Querejeta. She also co-wrote...
3 KB (222 words) - 17:18, 26 August 2024
English billiards (section Balls and table)
early 18th century. One period advertisement read: "A very good French Billiard Table, little the worse for wearing, full size, with all the materials fit...
18 KB (2,481 words) - 21:02, 2 October 2024
A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of...
24 KB (2,705 words) - 08:00, 16 September 2024
Artistic billiards is a cue sport played on a billiard table. A discipline of carom billiards, players aim to recreate a portion of 76 pre-set shots of...
12 KB (1,134 words) - 17:38, 6 February 2024
lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls)...
21 KB (2,649 words) - 03:21, 29 September 2024
1515% (1 in 660) on the Great Western main line, nicknamed Brunel's Billiard Table, because the early locomotives (and their brakes) were feeble. Steep...
30 KB (3,084 words) - 14:58, 8 October 2024
traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long...
22 KB (2,435 words) - 18:46, 26 August 2024
at tables along the walls to the left and right, with Ginoux, the landlord said to be depicted (standing) in it, to one side of a billiard table near...
14 KB (1,804 words) - 15:59, 18 September 2024
List of furniture types (section Tables)
Headboard Infant bed (crib, cradle) Sofa bed Toddler bed Billiard table Celestial globe Chess table Entertainment center Gramophone Hi-fi Jukebox Pinball...
5 KB (422 words) - 16:49, 9 October 2024
Snookball is a ball sport that is played on a billiard table, combining elements of snooker and association football. In 2014, snookball was founded by...
2 KB (123 words) - 11:14, 15 October 2024
Brunswick Corporation (redirect from Great Western Billiard Manufactory)
billiard tables would be more lucrative, as the better tables then in use in the United States were imported from England. Brunswick billiard tables were...
17 KB (1,717 words) - 21:53, 6 June 2024
gets kind of meta: She considers not just one billiard table, but the universe of all possible billiard tables. And the kind of dynamics she studies doesn't...
52 KB (4,464 words) - 20:42, 8 October 2024
is played on a pocketless unmarked billiard table, usually 10 by 5 feet (3.0 m × 1.5 m) in size, and three billiard balls, one, usually white, that serves...
6 KB (819 words) - 20:51, 15 November 2022
use this wall to bank balls similarly to how billiard balls are played off the cushions of a billiard table. The wickets, called arches, are permanently...
12 KB (1,592 words) - 19:39, 25 July 2024
the universe operate in the same fashion as the rolling balls on a billiard table, moving and striking each other in predictable ways to produce predictable...
94 KB (11,678 words) - 03:40, 16 October 2024
basic functions of a computer database Crud (game), a game played on a billiard table CRUD (radio station), a former radio station of Rochdale College in...
603 bytes (109 words) - 19:00, 8 February 2024
World Billiards Championship (English billiards) (section Billiard Association tournament World Championships)
and not recognised by the Billiard Association. With the Billiards Association championship in abeyance, the billiard table manufacturers George Wright...
73 KB (2,218 words) - 07:49, 18 October 2024
Comparison of cue sports (section Tables)
strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiard table bounded by rubber cushions attached to the confining rails of the table. Carom...
28 KB (3,779 words) - 05:10, 27 August 2024
bought a fine fortepiano from Anton Walter for about 900 florins, and a billiard table for about 300. The Mozarts sent their son Karl Thomas to an expensive...
82 KB (8,943 words) - 13:16, 9 October 2024
of it. It was a perfect natural landing field [...] as smooth as a billiard table without anything being done to it. The lake bed made an ideal strip...
84 KB (9,449 words) - 04:37, 6 October 2024