Faster access than browser!
63 relations: Artistic billiards, Bagatelle, Baize, Balkline and straight rail, Bar, Bar billiards, Billiard ball, Billiard Congress of America, Billiard hall, Billiard room, Blackball (pool), Bumper pool, Carom billiards, Commonwealth of Nations, Cue sports, Cushion caroms, English billiards, Europe, Felt, Ford Mustang (first generation), Four-ball billiards, International Billiards and Snooker Federation, International Olympic Committee, Ivory, Jacob Schaefer Jr., Kinetic energy, Liberty Games, Lozenge, Margin of error, Maximum break, Medium-density fibreboard, Montreal International Auto Show, Nap (textile), Natural rubber, Nine-ball, Nylon, Plywood, Pool (cue sports), Pub, Queen Victoria, Recreation room, Room temperature, Russian pyramid, Silent Running, Slate, Snooker, Sports governing body, Straight pool, Table (furniture), Table tennis, ..., Three-cushion billiards, Transworld Publishers, Trick shot, Union Mondiale de Billard, Vulcanization, Welker Cochran, Wool, Woolen, World Eightball Pool Federation, World Pool-Billiard Association, World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, Worsted, Zinc. Expand index (13 more) »
Artistic billiards
Artistic billiards, sometimes called fantasy billiards or fantaisie classique, is a carom billiards discipline in which players compete at performing 76 preset shots of varying difficulty.
New!!: Billiard table and Artistic billiards · See more »
Bagatelle
Bagatelle (from the Château de Bagatelle) is a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls (set at nine in the 19th century) past wooden pins (which act as obstacles) into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over.
New!!: Billiard table and Bagatelle · See more »
Baize
Baize is a coarse woollen (or in cheaper variants cotton) cloth.
New!!: Billiard table and Baize · See more »
Balkline and straight rail
Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line or balk-line) is the overarching title of a large array of carom billiards games generally played with two and a third, red, on a -covered, 5 foot × 10 foot, less table that is divided by on the cloth into marked regions called.
New!!: Billiard table and Balkline and straight rail · See more »
Bar
A bar (also known as a saloon or a tavern or sometimes a pub or club, referring to the actual establishment, as in pub bar or savage club etc.) is a retail business establishment that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks and often sell snack foods such as crisps (potato chips) or peanuts, for consumption on premises.
New!!: Billiard table and Bar · See more »
Bar billiards
Bar billiards is a form of billiards which involves scoring points by potting balls in holes on the playing surface of the table rather than in pockets.
New!!: Billiard table and Bar billiards · See more »
Billiard ball
A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker.
New!!: Billiard table and Billiard ball · See more »
Billiard Congress of America
Billiard Congress of America (BCA) is a governing body for cue sports in North America (here defined as the United States and Canada exclusively), the regional member organization of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA).
New!!: Billiard table and Billiard Congress of America · See more »
Billiard hall
A billiard/billiards, pool or snooker hall (or '''parlour'''/'''parlor''', room or club; sometimes compounded as poolhall, poolroom, etc.) is a place where people get together for playing cue sports such as pool, snooker or carom billiards.
New!!: Billiard table and Billiard hall · See more »
Billiard room
A billiard room (also billiards room, or more specifically pool room, snooker room) is a recreation room, such as in a house or recreation center, with a billiards, pool or snooker table.
New!!: Billiard table and Billiard room · See more »
Blackball (pool)
Blackball (sometimes written black ball or black-ball) is a pool (pocket billiards) game originating in the United Kingdom and popular in multiple countries.
New!!: Billiard table and Blackball (pool) · See more »
Bumper pool
Bumper pool is a pocket billiards game played on an octagonal or rectangular table fitted with an array of fixed cushioned obstacles, called bumpers, at the center of its surface.
New!!: Billiard table and Bumper pool · See more »
Carom billiards
Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards or simply carambole (and in some cases used as a synonym for the game of straight rail from which many carom games derive), is the overarching title of a family of billiards games generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless tables, which often feature heated slate beds.
New!!: Billiard table and Carom billiards · See more »
Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.
New!!: Billiard table and Commonwealth of Nations · See more »
Cue sports
Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.
New!!: Billiard table and Cue sports · See more »
Cushion caroms
Cushion caroms (or cushion carom billiards) Each section of the newspaper page scans on this site can be clicked for a readable closeup.
New!!: Billiard table and Cushion caroms · See more »
English billiards
English billiards, called simply billiards Serves as a good example; the book refers to English billiards simply as "billiards", from cover to cover.
New!!: Billiard table and English billiards · See more »
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
New!!: Billiard table and Europe · See more »
Felt
Felt is a textile material that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers together.
New!!: Billiard table and Felt · See more »
Ford Mustang (first generation)
The first-generation Ford Mustang was manufactured by Ford from March 1964 until 1973.
New!!: Billiard table and Ford Mustang (first generation) · See more »
Four-ball billiards
Four-ball billiards (often abbreviated to simply four-ball, and sometimes spelled 4-ball or fourball) is a carom billiards game, played on a pocketless table with four billiard balls, usually two red and two white, one of the latter with a spot to distinguish it (in some sets, one of the white balls is yellow instead of spotted).
New!!: Billiard table and Four-ball billiards · See more »
International Billiards and Snooker Federation
The International Billiards & Snooker Federation (IBSF) is the organisation that governs non-professional snooker and English billiards around the world.
New!!: Billiard table and International Billiards and Snooker Federation · See more »
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité International Olympique, CIO) is a Swiss private non-governmental organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is the authority responsible for the modern Olympic Games.
New!!: Billiard table and International Olympic Committee · See more »
Ivory
Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally elephants') and teeth of animals, that can be used in art or manufacturing.
New!!: Billiard table and Ivory · See more »
Jacob Schaefer Jr.
Jacob (Jake) Schaefer Jr. (born 18 October 1894 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., died 10 November 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) was a professional carom billiards player with German grandparentage, a specialist in balkline games, and was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1968.
New!!: Billiard table and Jacob Schaefer Jr. · See more »
Kinetic energy
In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion.
New!!: Billiard table and Kinetic energy · See more »
Liberty Games
Liberty Games is a UK-based retailer, distributor and designer of games room equipment located in Epsom, England.
New!!: Billiard table and Liberty Games · See more »
Lozenge
A lozenge (◊), often referred to as a diamond, is a form of rhombus.
New!!: Billiard table and Lozenge · See more »
Margin of error
The margin of error is a statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results.
New!!: Billiard table and Margin of error · See more »
Maximum break
In snooker, under normal circumstances the maximum break is 147, also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a one-four-seven.
New!!: Billiard table and Maximum break · See more »
Medium-density fibreboard
Medium-density fibreboard (MDF) is an engineered wood product made by breaking down hardwood or softwood residuals into wood fibres, often in a defibrator, combining it with wax and a resin binder, and forming panels by applying high temperature and pressure.
New!!: Billiard table and Medium-density fibreboard · See more »
Montreal International Auto Show
The Montreal International Auto Show (Le Salon International de l'Auto de Montréal in French) is an annual auto show held in for 10 days in mid-to-late January in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
New!!: Billiard table and Montreal International Auto Show · See more »
Nap (textile)
Primarily, nap is the raised (fuzzy) surface on certain kinds of cloth, such as velvet or moleskin.
New!!: Billiard table and Nap (textile) · See more »
Natural rubber
Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds, plus water.
New!!: Billiard table and Natural rubber · See more »
Nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a contemporary form of pool (pocket billiards), with historical beginnings rooted in the United States and traceable to the 1920s.
New!!: Billiard table and Nine-ball · See more »
Nylon
Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers, based on aliphatic or semi-aromatic polyamides.
New!!: Billiard table and Nylon · See more »
Plywood
Plywood is a sheet material manufactured from thin layers or "plies" of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers having their wood grain rotated up to 90 degrees to one another.
New!!: Billiard table and Plywood · See more »
Pool (cue sports)
Pool is a cue sport played on a table with six pockets along the, into which balls are deposited.
New!!: Billiard table and Pool (cue sports) · See more »
Pub
A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.
New!!: Billiard table and Pub · See more »
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.
New!!: Billiard table and Queen Victoria · See more »
Recreation room
A recreation room (also known as a rec room, rumpus room, play room, playroom, or ruckus room) is a room used for a variety of purposes, such as parties, games and other everyday or casual use.
New!!: Billiard table and Recreation room · See more »
Room temperature
Colloquially, room temperature is the range of air temperatures that most people prefer for indoor settings, which feel comfortable when wearing typical indoor clothing.
New!!: Billiard table and Room temperature · See more »
Russian pyramid
Russian pyramid, also known as Russian billiard (ру́сский билья́рд, russky bilyard) or pyramid billiards, is a cue sport that has several differences from Western pool, although game play is still dominated by attempts to billiard balls.
New!!: Billiard table and Russian pyramid · See more »
Silent Running
Silent Running is a 1972 environmental-themed American post-apocalyptic science fiction film.
New!!: Billiard table and Silent Running · See more »
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.
New!!: Billiard table and Slate · See more »
Snooker
Snooker is a cue sport which originated among British Army officers stationed in India in the latter half of the 19th century.
New!!: Billiard table and Snooker · See more »
Sports governing body
A sports governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function.
New!!: Billiard table and Sports governing body · See more »
Straight pool
Straight pool, also called 14.1 continuous or simply 14.1, is a type of pool game.
New!!: Billiard table and Straight pool · See more »
Table (furniture)
A table is an item of furniture with a flat top and one or more legs, used as a surface for working at, eating from or on which to place things.
New!!: Billiard table and Table (furniture) · See more »
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using small bats.
New!!: Billiard table and Table tennis · See more »
Three-cushion billiards
Three-cushion billiards (sometimes called three-cushion carom, three-cushion, three-cushions, three-rail, rails and the angle game, and often spelled with the numeral "3" instead of "three") is a popular form of carom billiards.
New!!: Billiard table and Three-cushion billiards · See more »
Transworld Publishers
Transworld Publishers Inc. is a British publishing house in Ealing, London that is a division of Penguin Random House, one of the world's largest mass media groups.
New!!: Billiard table and Transworld Publishers · See more »
Trick shot
A trick shot (also trickshot or trick-shot) is a shot played on a billiards table (most often a pool table, though snooker tables are also used), which seems unlikely or impossible or requires significant skill.
New!!: Billiard table and Trick shot · See more »
Union Mondiale de Billard
The Union Mondiale de Billard (French for World Union of Billiards) is the world governing body for carom (carambole) billiard games.
New!!: Billiard table and Union Mondiale de Billard · See more »
Vulcanization
Vulcanization or vulcanisation is a chemical process for converting natural rubber or related polymers into more durable materials by heating them with sulfur or other equivalent curatives or accelerators.
New!!: Billiard table and Vulcanization · See more »
Welker Cochran
Welker Cochran (October 7, 1897 – July 26, 1960) was an American professional carom billiards player who won world titles in two different disciplines, balkline and three-cushion billiards.
New!!: Billiard table and Welker Cochran · See more »
Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other animals, including cashmere and mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids.
New!!: Billiard table and Wool · See more »
Woolen
Woolen (American English) or woollen (Commonwealth English) is a type of yarn made from carded wool.
New!!: Billiard table and Woolen · See more »
World Eightball Pool Federation
The World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) is an international pool (pocket billiards) governing body overseeing international (principally British, Commonwealth, and continental European) tournaments and rankings in eightball pool (a game similar to eight-ball but played with red and yellow unnumbered balls instead of the stripes and solids numbered balls).
New!!: Billiard table and World Eightball Pool Federation · See more »
World Pool-Billiard Association
The World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) is the international governing body for pocket billiards.
New!!: Billiard table and World Pool-Billiard Association · See more »
World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), founded in 1968 and based in Bristol, the United Kingdom, is the governing body of men's professional snooker and English billiards.
New!!: Billiard table and World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association · See more »
Worsted
Worsted is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category.
New!!: Billiard table and Worsted · See more »
Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
New!!: Billiard table and Zinc · See more »
Redirects here:
Billiard board, Billiard tables, Billiards board, Billiards table, Billiards tables, Pocket (billiards), Pool table, Pool tables, Snooker table, Snooker tables.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiard_table
