ball A ball is a round object (usually spherical, but sometimes ovoid) with several uses. It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players. Balls can also be used for s ...

is a spherical round object with various uses. Ball(s) or The Ball may also refer to:

Places

* Ball (crater), a crater on the Moon * Ball, Cornwall, a hamlet in the north of Cornwall, England, UK *

Ball, Louisiana Ball is a town in Rapides Parish, just north of Pineville, Louisiana, United States. Established in 1972, it is part of the Alexandria, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 4,000 at the 2010 census, an increase of 8.7 ...

, a town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, US *

Balls (mountain range) The Balls are a mountain range within the Sierra Nevada, in Madera County, California. They are "glacier-carved granite domes" and have been described as "looking like smooth scoops of butterscotch ice cream". The mountain range has federal pro ...

, a mountain range in Madera County, California, US

People with the surname

* Ball (surname), a list of people with the surname Ball *

Ed Balls Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a British former politician, broadcaster and economist. He served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families from 2007 to 2010, and as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011 to ...

, a British politician * Katy Balls, a British journalist *

Norah Balls Norah Elizabeth Balls (3 August 1886 – 26 May 1980) was a British suffragette, women's rights campaigner, magistrate and councillor. She was a co-founder of the Girl Guides movement in Northumberland. Early life Norah Elizabeth Balls was b ...

(1886–1980), British suffragette, women's rights campaigner, magistrate, councillor *

William Lawrence Balls William Lawrence Gordon Balls, also known as W.L.G Balls, (3 September 1882 – 18 July 1960) was a British botanist who specialized in cotton picking technology. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1923. Biography Education and e ...

, a British botanist

Anatomy

Ball (foot) The ball of the foot is the padded portion of the sole between the toes and the arch, underneath the heads of the metatarsal bones. In comparative foot morphology, the ball is most analogous to the metacarpal (forepaw) or metatarsal (hindpa ...

, a bottom part of the foot * Balls, a slang word for

testicle A testicle or testis ( testes) is the gonad in all male bilaterians, including humans, and is Homology (biology), homologous to the ovary in females. Its primary functions are the production of sperm and the secretion of Androgen, androgens, p ...

s, which may also apply to chutzpah or bravery

Arts and entertainment

Film and theatre

* ''Le Bal'' (1931 film), a French film * ''The Ball'' (1958 film) (''Mingea''), a Romanian film * ''Le Bal'' (1983 film), an Algerian film * ''Balls'' (film) (Swedish: Farsan), a 2010 Swedish comedy film * ''The Ball'' (2011), an Australian documentary, runner up for the 2011 AACTA Award for Best Documentary Under One Hour * ''The Ball'' (play), a 1632 play by James Shirley

Games

* ''Ball'' (Game & Watch), a game for the Nintendo Game & Watch * ''

Ballz ''Ballz'' is a two-player 2.5D action fighting video game developed by PF.Magic and published by Accolade. It was released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and the Super NES (SNES) in 1994, with the 3DO version being released as a director's c ...

'', a 1994 fighting game * ''The Ball'' (video game), a 2010 video game

Music

Groups

Balls (rock band) Trevor Burton (born Trevor Ireson; 9 March 1949 in Aston, Birmingham) is an English guitarist and is a founding member of the Move. Career Burton started playing guitar at a young age and was leading his own group called the Everglades by 196 ...

, a 1969–1971 British rock band * B.A.L.L., a 1987–1990 American rock band

Albums

* ''Ball'' (Iron Butterfly album), 1969 * ''Ball'' (Widespread Panic album), 2003 * ''Balls'' (Elizabeth Cook album), 2007 * ''Balls'' (Sparks album), 2000 * ''Balls'' (EP), by Guttermouth, 1991 * ''Balls'', by

Napoleon Murphy Brock Napoleon Murphy Brock (born April 23, 1943) is an American singer, saxophonist and flute player who is best known for his work with Frank Zappa in the 1970s, including the albums '' Apostrophe (')'', '' Roxy & Elsewhere'', '' One Size Fits All ...

, 2003

Songs

* "Ball" (song), by T.I., 2012 * "Ball", by DJ Khaled from ''

Victory The term victory (from ) originally applied to warfare, and denotes success achieved in personal duel, combat, after military operations in general or, by extension, in any competition. Success in a military campaign constitutes a strategic vi ...

'', 2010 * "Ball", by Susumu Hirasawa from '' Sword-Wind Chronicle BERSERK Original Soundtrack'', 1997 * "The Ball", from the musical '' Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812'', 2012 * "Un bal", the second movement of ''

Symphonie fantastique ' (''Fantastic Symphony: Episode in the Life of an Artist … in Five Sections'') Opus number, Op. 14, is a program music, programmatic symphony written by Hector Berlioz in 1830. The first performance was at the Paris Conservatoire on 5 December ...

'' by Hector Berlioz, 1830

Television

Balls (TV channel) A ball is a spherical round object with various uses. Ball(s) or The Ball may also refer to: Places * Ball (crater), a crater on the Moon * Ball, Cornwall, a hamlet in the north of Cornwall, England, UK * Ball, Louisiana, a town in Rapides ...

, a defunct Filipino sports channel * "The Ball" (''Dynasty'' 1985), an episode * "The Ball" (''Dynasty'' 1986), an episode * "The Ball" (''Kanon''), an episode * "Balls" (''Northern Exposure''), an episode

Brands and enterprises

* Ball (St. Paul's Churchyard), an historical bookseller in London *

Ball Corporation Ball Corporation is an American aluminum manufacturing company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado. It is best known for its early production of glass jars, lids, and related products used for home canning. Since its founding in Buffalo, N ...

, a U.S. packaging manufacturer and metal can maker *

Ball Watch Company BALL Watch Company SA is a Swiss luxury watch company based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. It was founded in 1891 by Webb C. Ball in Cleveland, Ohio, and is linked to American railroad history. History Before the development of railroads a ...

Computing and technology

BALL A ball is a round object (usually spherical, but sometimes ovoid) with several uses. It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players. Balls can also be used for s ...

(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 Ball High School is a public secondary school in Galveston, Texas, United States. Ball, which covers grades 9 through 12, is a part of Galveston Independent School District. Ball High School serves the cities of Galveston and Jamaica Beach a ...

, a public secondary school in Galveston, Texas, US *

Ball State University Ball State University (Ball State or BSU) is a public research university in Muncie, Indiana, United States. The university has three off-campus centers in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Fishers, Indiana. The university is composed of seven aca ...

, Muncie, Indiana, US

Social gatherings

Ball (dance party) A ball is a formal dance event often characterised by a banquet followed by a social dance. Ball dancing emerged from formal dances during the Middle Ages and carried on through different iterations throughout succeeding centuries, such as the ...

The Ball (event) The Matzo Ball is an annual Christmas Eve nightlife event and party held in a number of major cities in the United States targeted primarily at young Jewish single person, singles and organized by Mazel Events, LLC (previously the Society of Youn ...

, a NYC Jewish singles event on Christmas Eve

Sports

Ball (rhythmic gymnastics) The ball is an apparatus used in the sport of rhythmic gymnastics. It is one of the five apparatuses utilized in this discipline, alongside the clubs, hoop, ribbon, and rope. History The rhythmic ball has evolved significantly since the inceptio ...

Bandy ball A bandy ball is a rubber ball used for playing bandy and rink bandy. Bandy balls are manufactured by companies such as Jofa, Kosa, and Reebok. The core of the ball is made of cork and is surrounded by rubber or rubber-like plastic. Balls ...

Baseball (ball) A baseball is the ball used in the sport of baseball. It consists of a rubber or cork center wrapped in yarn and covered with white natural horsehide or cowhide, or a synthetic composite leather. A regulation baseball is in circumference i.e ...

, the physical object **

Ball (baseball statistics) In baseball, the strike zone is the area of space through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike even if the batter does not swing. The strike zone is defined as the volume of space above home plate and between the batter's knee ...

, a pitch outside the strike zone and not swung at by the batter *

Basketball (ball) A basketball is a Sphere, spherical ball used in basketball games. Basketballs usually range in size from very small promotional items that are only a few inches (some centimeters) in diameter to extra large balls nearly in diameter used in tra ...

Billiard 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 the balls differ depending upon the specific game being played. Various particular ball pro ...

Bowling ball A bowling ball is a hard spherical ball used to knock down bowling pins in the sport of bowling. Balls used in ten-pin bowling and American nine-pin bowling traditionally have holes for two fingers and the thumb. Balls used in five-pin bowlin ...

Cricket ball A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket. A cricket ball consists of a cork (material), cork core wound with String (structure), string then a leather cover stitched on, and manufacture is regulated by cricket law at first-clas ...

, the physical object **

Ball (cricket) A delivery or ball in cricket is a single action of bowling a cricket ball toward the batter. Once the ball has been delivered, batters may attempt to score runs, with the bowler and other fielders attempting to stop this by getting the batt ...

or delivery, a single action of bowling *

Football (ball) A football is a ball inflated with air that is used to play one of the various sports known as football. In these games, with some exceptions, goals or points are scored only when the ball enters one of two designated goal-scoring areas; footba ...

Ball (association football) A football or soccer ball is the ball used in the sport of association football. The ball's spherical shape, as well as its size, mass, and material composition, are specified by Law 2 of the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the ...

Gaelic ball A Gaelic ball () is the spherical leather football (ball), football used in the sports of Gaelic football and ladies' Gaelic football and international rules football, international rules football. The pattern of panels consists of six groups pe ...

Ball (gridiron football) In Northern America, a football (also called a pigskin) is a ball, roughly in the form of a lemon, used in the context of playing gridiron football. Footballs are often made of cowhide leather, as such a material is required in professional and ...

Rugby ball A rugby ball is an elongated ellipsoidal ball used in both codes of rugby football. Its measurements and weight are specified by World Rugby and the Rugby League International Federation, the governing bodies for both codes, rugby union and rugby ...

Golf ball A golf ball is a ball designed to be used in golf. Under the rules of golf, a golf ball has a mass no more than , has a diameter not less than , and performs within specified velocity, distance, and symmetry limits. Like golf clubs, golf bal ...

Lacrosse ball A lacrosse ball is the solid rubber ball that is used, with a lacrosse stick, to play the sport of lacrosse. It is typically white for men's lacrosse (however the PLL uses optic yellow balls for better TV visibility), or yellow for women's lacro ...

Pickleball Pickleball is a racket or paddle sport in which two or four players use a smooth-faced paddle to hit a perforated, hollow plastic ball over a net until one side is unable to return the ball or commits a rule infraction. Pickleball is played i ...

, the ball used in the game ** Ball!, a warning of an errant ball on the court *

Tennis ball A tennis ball is a small, hollow ball used in games of tennis and real tennis. Tennis balls are fluorescent yellow in Professional sports, professional competitions, but in Amateur sports, recreational play other colors are also used. Tennis bal ...

Volleyball (ball) A volleyball is a ball used to play indoor volleyball, beach volleyball, or other less common volleyball variations, variations of the sport. Volleyballs are spherical in shape and typically comprise eighteen nearly rectangular panels made from syn ...

Water polo ball A water polo ball is a ball used in water polo and canoe polo, usually characterized by a bright yellow color and ease of grip ability, so as to allow it to be held with one hand despite its large size. Standard water polo ball characteristics ...

, used in Waterpolo and Canoe polo

Other uses

Ball (bearing) Bearing balls are special highly spherical and smooth balls, most commonly used in ball bearings, but also used as components in things like freewheel mechanisms. The balls themselves are commonly referred to as ball bearings. This is an example ...

, special highly spherical and smooth balls, most commonly used in ball bearings *

Ball (mathematics) In mathematics, a ball is the solid figure bounded by a ''sphere''; it is also called a solid sphere. It may be a closed ball (including the boundary points that constitute the sphere) or an open ball (excluding them). These concepts are defi ...

, the solid interior of a sphere *

Ball of wax example The wax argument or the sheet of wax example is a thought experiment that René Descartes created in the second of his ''Meditations on First Philosophy''. He devised it to analyze what properties are essential for bodies, show how uncertain our k ...

, also known as the wax argument, a thought experiment by René Descartes in his ''Meditations on First Philosophy'' * '' Boule de Genève'' (Geneva ball), a type of pendant watch in the shape of a small ball *

Times Square Ball The Times Square Ball is a time ball located in New York City's Times Square. Located on the roof of One Times Square, the ball is a prominent part of a New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square commonly referred to as the ball drop, where t ...

or the Ball *

Round shot A round shot (also called solid shot or simply ball) is a solid spherical projectile without explosive charge, launched from a gun. Its diameter is slightly less than the bore of the barrel from which it is shot. A round shot fired from a lar ...

or cannonball or ball, a round projectile fired from guns and cannons