Sports

Pelota (Spanish for ball) can refer to the popular and shortened names for a number of ball games:

  • Basque pelota
  • Chaza
  • Jai alai
  • Mesoamerican ballgame
  • Palla
  • Pelota mixteca
  • Valencian pilota
  • Frontenis
  • Pétanque
  • Racketlon

Other uses

  • Pelota (boat), an improvised skin boat for crossing rivers.
  • Protein pelota homolog a protein encoded by the PELO gene