Boules

Pétanque (, ; ; ) is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports (along with raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, lawn bowls, and crown green bowling). In these sports, players or teams play their boules/balls towards a target ball.

250px|thumb|People trying out Boccia in Japan, 2019

thumb|Boules Boules (, ), or jeu de boules, is a collective name for a wide range of games similar to bowls and bocce in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls as closely as possible to a small target ball, called the jack. 'Boules' itself is a French loanword that usually refers to the game especially played in France.

thumb |An image of bocce embedded in a medieval manuscript thumb|An Argentine family playing bocce in San Vicente, Buenos Aires, thumb|Bocce play in Cape Coral, Florida, United States in 2007 thumb|Bocce being played thumb|A typical bocce set ' (, or , ), sometimes anglicized as bocce ball, bocci, or boccie', is a ball sport belonging to the boules family of games. Developed into its present form in Italy, it is closely related to English bowls and French , with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire. Bocce is played around Western, Southern, and Southeastern Europe,

boules-type game

French boules game

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.