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    Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered...
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    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 the...
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  • glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played...
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  • Cue sports events were contested at the Asian Games starting from the 1998 Games in Bangkok. Billiards and snooker at the Southeast Asian Games Cue sports...
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    Cue sports techniques (usually more specific, e.g., billiards techniques, snooker techniques) are a vital important aspect of game play in the various...
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  • and pool are two types of cue sports or billiards-family games, which as a general class are played with a stick called a cue which is used to strike billiard...
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  • Cue sports have a long history in India. The game of snooker originated among British Army officers stationed in India in the latter half of the 19th century...
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  • Cue sports, including three-cushion billiards, nine-ball (a pool discipline) and snooker, were introduced as World Games sports for men and (in the case...
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  • Backgammon Beer Pong Carrom Carrom Nok Hockey Chess Connect Four Crokinole Cue sports (a.k.a Billiards) Draughts (a.k.a. checkers) Dominoes Headis Janggi Mahjong...
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  • 2024 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. The main highlight for this year is the 2024 Summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in Paris...
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  • volleyball. Racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis, squash and badminton. Throwing sports, such as dodgeball and bocce. Cue sports, such as pool and...
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    Billiard ball (redirect from Cue ball)
    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...
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  • Cue sports was contested at the Asian Games for the first time at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand between 6 and 19 December 1998. The competition...
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    A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool...
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  • 2025 in sports describes the year's events in world sports. The main events for this year are the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup in England and the 2025...
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    players use topspin to keep the cue ball moving, including after it hits other balls. They get top spin by hitting the cue against the top of the ball. In...
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    Sport (redirect from SportS)
    (such as snooker and other cue sports), or primarily animal-supported (such as equestrian sport). The inclusion of mind sports within sport definitions...
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  • The year of 1870 included challenge matches in the table-top cue sports of pool disciplines and English billiards. The following notable challenge matches...
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  • Cue sports at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Asian Games Town Gymnasium, Guangzhou, China from November 13 to 20, 2010. A total of 191 athletes from...
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  • World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS) is the international umbrella organization encompassing the major cue sports (billiards-type games), including...
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    Asian Zone of the Olympic Council of Asia, the governing body of all the sports in Asia, recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the continental...
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    between 1962 and 1977, 1999-2003 and since 2008. Cue sports, also known as billiards sports or pool sports, are popular in Asia, particularly in East and...
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  • Years played: 2006, 2010, 2022 First medal :2010 Last medal: 2010 Teams Cue sports were included in the Games for four consecutive editions from 1998 to...
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    Anta Sports Products Limited is a Chinese sports equipment multinational corporation headquartered in Jinjiang, China. It is the world's largest sports equipment...
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    surrounding table-top cue sports. These events include snooker, pool disciplines and billiards. Whilst these are traditionally singles sports, some matches and...
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  • The 2022 World Games had four cue sports events, which took place in July 2022, in Birmingham, Alabama in United States, at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention...
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  • club cricketer. In cue sports, players can reach farther across the table if they are able to play with either hand, since the cue must either be placed...
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    Championship. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murphy is noted for his straight cue action and his long potting. Born in Harlow, Essex, and raised in Irthlingborough...
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  • Cue sports at the 2006 Asian Games Three-cushion men English billiards singles doubles Eight-ball men women Nine-ball men women Snooker singles doubles...
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  • Women's cue sports in Australia is a sporting topic that has received some Australian media coverage since the early 20th century. Coverage began with...
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