Billiard

Billiard or billiards may refer to:

Games

• A billiard, 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 even more specifically, the most popular form of carom billiards worldwide (the most common specific usage)
  • The specific game of English billiards (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)
• See the list of cue sports for various other games with "billiards" in their names; also more specifically:
  • Pin billiards (disambiguation)
  • Bar billiards, a game combining elements of bagatelle and English billiards
• Electric billiards, an obsolete term for pinball (from billard électrique in French, in which pinball is today called flipper, a borrowing from English)

Mathematics and physics

• Billiard (number), the long-scale name used in most European languages for the number 10¹⁵ (called quadrillion in the short scale generally used in English).
• Dynamical billiards, the mathematical theory of particle trajectories within a closed reflective boundary

People

• Harry Billiard (1883–1923), Major League Baseball pitcher
• 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

See also

• Billiards World Cup Association, a governing body for carom billiards
• Billard, a French rolling stock construction company
• Bobbi Billard, American model