Games Played With Sticks And Balls

Racquet and ball games such as tennis squash racquetball and ball badminton.

Games played with sticks and balls.

Points are scored by hitting the pole with the ball or game sticks while holding the ball or running through the set of poles with the ball. Goal games such as forms of hockey except ice hockey which uses a hockey puck basketball water polo and all forms of football or lacrosse. The best known modern bat and ball games are baseball and cricket with common roots in the 18th century games played in england. Hand and ball striking games such as various handball codes rebound handball and 4 square.

Stickball game played on a street or other restricted area with a stick such as a mop handle or broomstick and a hard rubber ball stickball developed in the late 18th century from such english games as old cat rounders and town ball. Pinball bar billiards baseball billiards boules bowling bumble puppy canadian football a game resembling american football played on a grass pitch between two teams of 12 players crazy golf croquet fives a ball game similar to squash but played with bats or the. American football australian rules badminton bagatelle a board game in which balls are struck into holes with pins as obstacles. Stickball also relates to a game played in southern england and colonial boston in north america called stoolball.