Ball games

thumb|Kemijärvi Yukigassen 2011 Final is a snowball fighting-competition played between two teams of seven players each on a pitch of snow 10 meters wide and 36 meters long. The pitch is divided into halves, and each half has three defensive "shelters" and the team flag. The goal of the game is to either capture the other team's flags or to eliminate all of the other team's players by hitting them with snowballs, 90 of which are made prior to the start of gameplay. The game has been compared to capture the flag, dodgeball, and paintball.

Kin-Ball is a team sport created in Quebec, Canada, in 1986 by Mario Demers, a physical education professor.

Jugger is a sport inspired by the 1989 film The Salute of the Jugger (released as The Blood of Heroes in the United States), in which a game of the same name is played. The film version was invented by the film's stunt coordinator, Guy Norris, and its writer-director, David Webb Peoples, for the movie. The transformation into a real sport happened independently in Germany, the United States, and Australia in the late '80s and early '90s.

team sport originating in Ireland; related to polo but played on bicycles

thumb|Pushball game between New York Police Department|New York Police and Fire Departments, 1939 Pushball is a game played by two sides on a field usually long and wide, with a ball in diameter and in weight. Occasionally, much heavier balls were used. The sides usually number eleven each, there being five forwards, two left-wings, two right-wings and two goal-keepers. The goals consist of two upright posts high and apart with a crossbar from the ground. The game lasts for two periods with an intermission. Pushing the ball under the bar counts 5 points; lifting or throwing it over the bar cou

Episkyros, or episcyrus (, , ; also , , ) was an Ancient Greek ball game. The game was typically played between two teams of 12 to 14 players each, being highly teamwork-oriented.

original "tennis" sport; played with racquets in a walled court.

thumb|200px|Picigin player playing the ball forward at Bačvice beach in Split, Croatia Picigin () is traditional ball game from Split, Croatia that is played at the beach. It is an amateur sport played in shoals or other shallow water, usually consisting of cooperating players keeping a small ball aloft for as long as possible, with the game ending when the ball falls in the water.

Woodball () is a sport where a mallet is used to pass a ball through gates. This game can be played on grass, sand or indoors. The sport is in the program of Asian Beach Games and was incorporated in 2008.

form of entertainment

thumb|A game of tetherball

thumb|A court painting depicting Xuande Emperor of the Ming dynasty playing chuiwan. Coloured flags can be seen in the holes.

variety of court sports

petrosphere dating from the late Neolithic to the Iron Age, mainly found in and around Scotland

group of sports

elimination-based ball game played in a box

indirect style ball game

Volata ("flow") is a code of football developed and promoted by Italian fascists for a brief period during the late 1920s and early 1930s, in an attempt to displace sports with non-Italian origins, such as association football and rugby union.

Sport, ancestor of modern tennis

children's game

thumb|Kloot, the bowl with which the game is played thumb|upright|Klootschieten in Twente

French boules game

Headis is a mix of table tennis and the heading of association football. It is played at a regular table tennis table so it combines tactical elements of table tennis and the legwork of tennis. In mid-2016, the 11th Headis World Championship was held with players from 12 countries. thumb|upright=1.3|Two Headis players at a final of a tournament in Göttingen, Germany

'''''''''' (Old Icelandic for 'ball-game') was an ancient Norse ball game mentioned in the Sagas of Icelanders. Balls games of the kind are recorded from across the world ( Older Swedish: , , , ; English medieval football, hockey, etc.), and ultimately lead to various modern sports.

structure used for playing the Mesoamerican ballgame

variant of golf

thumb|Boulodrome court in the Luxembourg Garden, Paris A boulodrome is a venue designed for training and competitions involving ball and skittle games (such as pétanque, boule lyonnaise, boule bretonne, jeu provençal, and others). For pétanque, the dimensions of a boulodrome must be multiples of 15.00 m in length and 4.00 m in width (for example: 60.00 m × 20.00 m). In addition, there must be 1.00 m between courts, both lengthwise and widthwise, resulting in a total of 65.00 m in length (3.00 m between the four courts and 2.00 m at the edges) and 26.00 m in width.

thumb|Schleuderbälle thumb|Schleuderball in the Netherlands (1922) Schleuderball is a sport that originated in the Northwest Germany. It is played by two teams consisting of anywhere from two to eight players. The object of the game is to throw the ball into the opponents end zone. The game is played on a field that is 100-meters long by 15-meters wide (in the United States yards may be substituted for meters). The Schleuderball itself is a 1.5 kilogram leather ball with an attached strap. The primary throw, called a schleuder, is performed by swinging the ball around by the strap, gaining cen

Touchtennis is a modified version of tennis played on a compact court with foam balls and shorter () rackets. It is regularly featured on Sky Sports and is growing in popularity and acceptance as an alternative form of the full size game.

court used in the Valencian Community for two different modalities of Valencian pilota

Padbol is a fusion sport created in La Plata, Argentina in 2008, combining elements of football (soccer), tennis, volleyball, and squash.

Israeli variant of dodgeball

ballgame-team sport played on ice

informal ad hoc variant of the game of cricket, played by people of all genders and all ages in gardens, back yards, on the street, in parks, carparks, beaches and any area not specifically intended for the purpose

roller skate sport

Norwegian bag ball game

Scottish version of medieval football

thumb|A game of pärk Pärk or Paerk is a game somewhat similar to a game of baseball but where the aim is to gain ground like in American football, that has been played for centuries on the island of Gotland in Baltic Sea. The game is played with two teams of 7 people on a field that is wide and that can vary in length. The players hit the ball with their hands or feet. The paerk, or serve area, is marked off with wooden laths and measures .

Jokgu (namely Korean-style footvolley) is a sport which combines aspects of association football and volleyball or tennis.

Gain-ground games are team sports which are played with a small ball or a balloon. They are often outdoors on a "ballodrome" but can also be played indoors.

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thumb|More traditional skee-ball machines like this one do not include the two additional "100 points" holes, located on the uppermost corners of the machine, on either side of the "50 points" hole. Skee-Ball is an arcade game and one of the first redemption games. It is played by rolling a ball up an inclined lane and over a "ball-hop" hump (resembling a ski jump) that jumps the ball into bullseye rings. The object of the game is to collect as many points as possible by having the ball fall into holes in the rings which have progressively increasing point values the higher the ring is.

Throwball is a non-contact ball sport played across a net between two teams of seven players on a rectangular court.

traditional Picard sport

Team sport played with wood sticks and ball

target sport

thumb|right|Women's single game Roliball, ( also known as Bailong ball (), is a racket , ball and net sport. The racket has a silicone membrane and the ball is made from rubber and is partially filled with sand. The goal of the game is to land the ball on the opponent's side and prevent it from falling on your own half of the field. Contestants can be two players (multiplay single) or two pairs of players (pairs of the same sex - multiplay double, pairs of mixed sex - multiplay mixed).

thumb|250px|A game of cestoball.

traditional Tuscan ball game

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thumb|The base format of a cageball pitch.