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 Parish, Louisiana, US
  • Balls (mountain range), a mountain range in Madera County, California, US

People

  • Ball (surname), a list of people with the surname Ball
  • Balls (gamer), an American League of Legends player
  • Balls Mahoney, an American professional wrestler
  • Alastair Balls, a Scottish economist
  • Andrew Balls, a British economist
  • Ed Balls, a British politician
  • Jonathan Balls, an English serial killer
  • Katy Balls, a British journalist
  • Mara Balls, a Finnish singer-songwriter
  • Michael Balls, a British zoologist
  • Norah Balls (1886–1980), British suffragette, women's rights campaigner, magistrate, councillor
  • William Lawrence Balls, a British botanist

Anatomy

  • Ball (foot), a bottom part of the foot
  • Balls, a slang word for testicles, 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, a 1994 fighting game
  • The Ball (video game), a 2010 video game

Music

Groups

  • Balls (rock band), 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, 2003

Songs

  • "Ball" (song), by T.I., 2012
  • "Ball", by DJ Khaled from Victory, 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 by Hector Berlioz, 1830

Television

  • Balls (TV channel), 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, a U.S. packaging manufacturer and metal can maker
  • Ball Watch Company

Computing and technology

  • BALL (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, a public secondary school in Galveston, Texas, US
  • Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, US

Social gatherings

  • Ball (dance event)
  • The Ball (event), a NYC Jewish singles event on Christmas Eve

Sports

  • Ball (rhythmic gymnastics)
  • Bandy ball
  • Baseball (ball), the physical object
  • Ball (baseball statistics), a pitch outside the strike zone and not swung at by the batter
  • Basketball (ball)
  • Billiard ball
  • Bowling ball
  • Cricket ball, the physical object
  • Ball (cricket) or delivery, a single action of bowling
  • Football (ball)
  • Ball (association football)
  • Gaelic ball
  • Ball (gridiron football)
  • Rugby ball
  • Golf ball
  • Lacrosse ball
  • Pickleball, the ball used in the game
  • Ball!, a warning of an errant ball on the court
  • Tennis ball
  • Volleyball (ball)
  • Water polo ball, used in Waterpolo and Canoe polo

Other uses

  • Ball (bearing), special highly spherical and smooth balls, most commonly used in ball bearings
  • Ball (mathematics), the solid interior of a sphere
  • Times Square Ball or the Ball
  • Round shot or cannonball or ball, a round projectile fired from guns and cannons

See also

  • Bawl (disambiguation)
  • Bawls, a high-caffeine soft drink
  • Thermoball, a swarm of insects (especially bees) in collective defense against larger insects, such as predatory wasps
  • :Category:Balls, an index of game balls and other types of round balls