Noun

Singular billiards

Plural uncountable

billiards (uncountable)

  1. (games) (British) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
  2. (games) (US) The collective noun for games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.
  3. Plural form of billiard.

Synonyms

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Thu Jan 28 17:45:58 2010

Cue sports (sometimes spelled 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, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber cushions.

Historically, the umbrella term was billiards. While that familiar name is still employed by some as a generic label for all such games, the word's usage has splintered into more exclusive competing meanings in various parts of the world. For example, in British and Australian English, "billiards" usually refers exclusively to the game of English billiards, while in American and Canadian English it is sometimes used to refer to a particular game or class of games, or to all cue games in general, depending upon dialect and context.

There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports:

More obscurely, there are games that make use of obstacles and targets, and table-top games played with disks instead of balls.

Billiards has a long and rich history stretching from its inception in the 15th century; to the wrapping of the body of Mary, Queen of Scots, in her billiard table cover in 1586; through its many mentions in the works of Shakespeare, including the famous line "let's to billiards" in Antony and Cleopatra (1606–07); to the dome on Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello, which conceals a billiard room he hid, as billiards was illegal in Virginia at that time; and through the many famous enthusiasts of the sport including, Mozart, Louis XIV of France, Marie Antoinette, Immanuel Kant, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, George Washington, French president Jules Grévy, Charles Dickens, George Armstrong Custer, Theodore Roosevelt, Lewis Carroll, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, and many others.

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What kind of physics can I find out with billiards?
Q. I have a physics project to do, and my friend wants to do something with billiards aka "pool". Just wondering what kind of physics is involved with pool...considering all aspects of the game (such as english, banks, power, felt, etc). I would really appreciate it!
Asked by Jerrick A - Wed Jan 2 05:14:52 2008 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Forget it altogether!!! Honestly!! In pool, billiards and snooker, u'll be working ur nuts off!! Could you work out, the cloth resistivity, the force made with each shot , 'top', 'middle', 'stun-right & left', 'screw back', also possibly with stun and side on it!! Give it up!! That's without working out air resistance, chalk application, 'kick' , the cushion tension and ball weight material and material, under the felt!! Do 'AIR-HOCKEY'!!! Much easier with less coefficients gd luck
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How Come Billiards Was Stigmatized As A Game For "Bad People"?
Q. This attitudes have died down greatly but it wasn't the same almost 60 years ago. Even in pop culture and general attitudes, people associated billiards with crooked people, immoral, and only for males. One example shows in the movie Pinocchio when the bad kids are seen playing pool. Why was billiards shown like this?
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A. Rudolph Wonderone doesn't know why pool got a"bad name" during the depression days. "It don't make no sense, because it's a clean sport.They don't allow no drinkin' around the tables. I personally have never had a drink or a smoke in my life. I guess maybe the reason it got a bad name was that in the depression, everybody was supposed to work hard or starve. You weren't supposed to have no fun.
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How do I enjoy a nice game of billiards properly?
Q. What are the basics of the game? What do you do when you play? What kind of environment would make it the best kinda game? Do I need to smoke cigars, and enjoy brandy with a top hat, or can I make it more my kinda thing, meaning stripper poles, and cider?
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A. have an intersting match against someone. keep playing and you will soon improve. play someone who is similar to yourself to get the best
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