• Pelota (Spanish for ball) can refer to the popular and shortened names for a number of ball games: Basque pelota Chaza Jai alai Mesoamerican ballgame Palla...
    408 bytes (80 words) - 11:58, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Basque pelota
    Basque pelota (Basque: pilota, Spanish: pelota vasca, French: pelote basque) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's...
    32 KB (3,641 words) - 19:48, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pelotas
    Pelotas (Portuguese pronunciation: [peˈlɔtɐs]) is a Brazilian city and municipality (município), the fourth most populous in the southern state of Rio...
    36 KB (3,258 words) - 01:20, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pelota purépecha
    Pelota purépecha (Spanish for "Purépecha ball"), called Uárukua Ch'anakua ( "a game with sticks") in the Purépecha language, is an Indigenous Mexican sport...
    4 KB (371 words) - 01:38, 8 September 2023
  • Jugando Pelota Dura is a Puerto Rican television talk show hosted by Ferdinand Pérez. The program initially premiered on Sistema TV network in 2012 before...
    12 KB (1,069 words) - 05:33, 8 August 2024
  • A pelota was an improvised rawhide boat used in South and Central America for crossing rivers. It was similar in some respects to the coracle of the British...
    29 KB (3,762 words) - 04:52, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pelotas River
    The Pelotas River (Portuguese: Rio Pelotas [ˈʁi.u peˈlɔtɐs]) is a river in southern Brazil, and a tributary of the Uruguay River. The river originates...
    2 KB (132 words) - 03:52, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lance Armstrong
    Lance Armstrong (redirect from Juan Pelota)
    an active businessman and investor. He owns a coffee shop called "Juan Pelota Cafe" in downtown Austin, Texas. The name is a joking reference to his testicular...
    180 KB (15,652 words) - 23:31, 7 September 2024
  • Pelota vasca may refer to: Basque pelota — court ballgame similar to jai alai La pelota vasca — 2003 political documentary about the Basque County, by...
    200 bytes (58 words) - 18:02, 29 December 2019
  • Thumbnail for Basque pelota at the Summer Olympics
    Basque pelota was featured at the Summer Olympics at the 1900 Games. It was contested in another three Olympics as a demonstration sport: 1924, 1968 and...
    2 KB (123 words) - 13:36, 14 August 2024
  • The Basque Pelota World Cup (not to be confused with the Basque Pelota World Championship) is a set of four quadrennial tournaments organized by the International...
    8 KB (207 words) - 22:23, 15 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for List of racket sports
    Hardball squash Squash tennis Stické Tennis Tennis polo Touchtennis Basque pelota Beach tennis Downside ball game Four wall paddleball Frescobol Frescotennis...
    3 KB (174 words) - 13:53, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Basque pelota at the 1900 Summer Olympics
    At the 1900 Summer Olympics, a Basque pelota tournament was contested. Only two teams entered - one from Spain and one from France - but the French team...
    4 KB (206 words) - 03:38, 5 August 2024
  • The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone (Spanish: La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra; Basque: Euskal pilota: larrua harriaren kontra) is a 2003 Spanish...
    5 KB (485 words) - 06:30, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jai alai
    Jai alai (category Basque pelota)
    hand-held wicker, commonly referred to as a cesta. It is a variation of Basque pelota. The term jai alai, coined by Serafin Baroja in 1875, is also often loosely...
    23 KB (2,856 words) - 15:36, 7 August 2024
  • The Basque Pelota World Championships is a quadrennial tournament first organized in 1952 by the International Federation of Basque Pelota. The modern...
    11 KB (290 words) - 17:04, 3 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Punto pelota
    Punto pelota was a Spanish sports talk show that was broadcast on Intereconomía TV rom Monday to Friday, between 20:45 and 22:00. The program was presented...
    16 KB (1,733 words) - 07:48, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mesoamerican ballgame
    it is called juego de pelota maya ('Maya ballgame'), juego de pelota mesoamericano ('Mesoamerican ballgame'), or simply pelota maya ('Maya ball'). It...
    60 KB (7,146 words) - 12:09, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Palla (game)
    Palla (game) (redirect from Tuscan Pelota)
    Palla (Italian for ball) is a traditional Tuscan ball game played in villages between Siena and Grosseto. It is also called palla EH! (or pallaeh!) because...
    6 KB (888 words) - 19:06, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oinatz Bengoetxea
    Bengoetxea (born August 28, 1984 in Leitza) is a player of Basque pelota who won the 1st Hand-Pelota singles championship in 2008. Fronton News https://www.baikopilota...
    882 bytes (46 words) - 11:37, 25 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for Juan Martínez de Irujo
    Juan Martínez de Irujo (born 4 November 1981) is a professional Basque pelota player for the Aspe team. Martínez de Irujo was born in 1981 in Ibero, Olza...
    6 KB (188 words) - 08:25, 21 July 2021
  • Thumbnail for Pelota Fronton
    The Pelota Fronton is a Basque pelota ball court and landmark in Jordan Valley, Oregon, United States. The court was built in 1915 and finished in 1917...
    3 KB (284 words) - 13:10, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fronton (court)
    is a two-walled or single-walled court used as a playing area for Basque pelota. The front wall of the first frontons in villages was usually the wall of...
    8 KB (840 words) - 13:40, 20 August 2021
  • Thumbnail for Olympic Games
    1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 Basque pelota 1900 Beach volleyball 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 Boxing 1904 1908 1920 1924...
    202 KB (20,443 words) - 19:42, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cricket
    beach Czech field wheelchair Kaatsen Kin-Ball Lagori Mesoamerican ballgame Pelota mixteca Prisonball Pushball Quidditch Roll ball Tamburello Tchoukball Ulama...
    109 KB (12,044 words) - 17:15, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Association football
    beach Czech field wheelchair Kaatsen Kin-Ball Lagori Mesoamerican ballgame Pelota mixteca Prisonball Pushball Quidditch Roll ball Tamburello Tchoukball Ulama...
    125 KB (11,723 words) - 21:40, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pelota mixteca
    Pelota mixteca ("Mixtec-style ball") is a team sport similar to a net-less tennis game. The players wear sturdy, elaborately decorated gloves affixed to...
    6 KB (731 words) - 00:08, 26 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Andrés López Forero
    López gained notoriety in Colombia after releasing his show called La Pelota de Letras (The Ball of Letters) which earned him a Double Diamond award...
    32 KB (3,074 words) - 13:42, 6 August 2024
  • merely gloved/barehanded: American handball Australian handball Basque pelota Butts Up Chinese handball Fives Gaelic handball International fronton Jai...
    46 KB (3,244 words) - 18:18, 7 September 2024
  • September 1913, date of death unknown) was a Basque pelota player, winner of the 1945 1st Hand-Pelota doubles championship. Larrañaga was born in Cestona...
    4 KB (234 words) - 15:46, 13 February 2023