Games

• A , a type of shot in cue sports (see below)
• Billiards: cue sports in general, including pool, carom billiards, snooker, etc.; the term "billiards" by itself is also sometimes used to refer to any of the following more specifically:
• Carom billiards (also known as French billiards) games in general (a chiefly non-British usage)

• Three-cushion billiards
  Three-cushion billiards
  Three-cushion billiards is a form of carom billiards, and one of the most popular and challenging cue sports in the world.The object of the game is to the off both and contact the at least 3...
  
   even more specifically, the most popular form of carom billiards worldwide (the most common specific usage)
  • The specific game of English billiards
    English billiards
    English billiards, called simply billiards in many former British colonies and in Great Britain where it originated, is a hybrid form of carom and pocket billiards played on a billiard table. Billiards is less well known as "the English game", "the all-in game" and "the common game".The game is for...
    
     (a chiefly British, Irish and Australian usage)
  • Pool (pocket billiards) games, such as eight-ball and nine-ball, in general (a chiefly colloquial North American usage)
  • Electric billiards, an obsolete term for pinball
    Pinball
    Pinball is a type of arcade game, usually coin-operated, where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass-covered case called a pinball machine. The primary objective of the game is to score as many points as possible...
    
     (from électrique in French, in which pinball is today called flipper, a borrowing from English)

Mathematics and physics

• Billiard, the (chiefly French and German) long-scale name
  Names of large numbers
  This article lists and discusses the usage and derivation of names of large numbers, together with their possible extensions.The following table lists those names of large numbers which are found in many English dictionaries and thus have a special claim to being "real words"...
  
   for the number 10¹⁵ in mathematics (called "quadrillion" in short scale)
• Dynamical billiards
  Dynamical billiards
  A billiard is a dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary. When the particle hits the boundary it reflects from it without loss of speed...
  
  , the of particle trajectories within a closed reflective boundary, in theoretical physics (contrast this mass noun with the count noun "dynamical billiard", below)
• A dynamical billiard
  Dynamical billiards
  A billiard is a dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary. When the particle hits the boundary it reflects from it without loss of speed...
  
  , any of several of particle trajectories within a closed reflective boundary

People

• Harry Billiard
  Harry Billiard
  Harry Pree Billiard was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played in with the New York Highlanders of the American League, then in with the Indianapolis Hoosiers, continuing with the team in when it moved and became the Newark Pepper. He batted and threw left-handed...
  
   (1883–1923), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Bobbi Billiard, an American glamour and swimwear model
• Maria Duchêne-Billiard (1884-?), French contralto of the Metropolitan Opera
• Cora Billiard Wickham Sibley (née Billiard, 1884–1976), American painter, and wife of Robert Pelton Sibley
  Robert Pelton Sibley
  Robert Pelton Sibley was an American academic and a headmaster of Deerfield Academy.Born in Westfield, Mass., Sibley graduated from Amherst College in 1900. At commencement, he was awarded the Henry D...
  
  

See also

• List of cue sports for various other games with "billiards" in their names (pin billiards, etc.)
• Billiards World Cup Association
  Billiards World Cup Association
  The Billiards World Cup Association was a governing body for carom billiards, like its competitor and successor, Union Mondiale de Billard....
  
  , a governing body for carom billiards