Ball and ball sports
A ball sport is any sport that is played with a ball . Any other equally suitable object can be considered a ball. Its shape does not play a role in the definition, but only depends on the suitability for the respective game: It can be spherical or oval, disc or ring-shaped, equipped with handles or flight stabilizers (feathers), braided, perforated, with movable filling, be hollow or solid.
As a ball sport refers to sports that with (at least) a ball to be played. Here, balls can also be replaced by suitable other objects; However, one then no longer speaks of ball game or ball sport. These games are listed below because of their analogy to ball games.
Basics
Ball sports are usually played between two parties (singles, doubles, teams) with a ball that is only replaced as soon as it is unusable or lost. The ball is moved by hand, foot or a stick. However, there are also games in which several spherical objects are used, albeit not at the same time.
Many ball and ball games are organized in a league, and there are international tournaments. Some of them are an Olympic discipline . The most popular and most popular ball game in the world is volleyball.
One can distinguish the following families, each of which is subdivided into two to four genera. For more information, features and special variants in disabled sports, see the individual keywords: Click on the heading.
(Games that are not played in a competitive manner are listed in italics .)
Goal games
Return games
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Netball games
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Wall ball games
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Batball games
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Batball games with a square field |
Batball games with an elongated field |
Play with multiple balls or spheres
The following games and sports are also known as precision sports and / or games of skill .
Ball games in the narrower sense
Ball sports in the narrower sense are the sports organized in the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules (CMSB). "The CMSB was recognized by the IOC (Comité International Olympique) on October 15, 1986 in Lausanne as a representative of all ball sports."
The German ball sports associations are organized in the German Boccia, Boule and Pétanque Association (DBBPV).
- Boccia (Raffa)
- Boules
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Bowls
- Indoor bowling
- Lawn bowling
- Ball hitting
There is also ironing. The German clubs are affiliated to the Dutch Beugelbond (NBB).
Related games in which other objects act as the ball
- Bootschen
- Curling
- Horseshoes (horseshoes, Horseshoe pitching; in North America)
- Stock shooting (ice stock sport or stock sport, team game discipline )
- Jeu de palets
One-hole games (hole or obstacle games)
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Croquet
- Association croquet
- Golf croquet
- golf
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Lane golf
- Mini golf
- Cobigolf
- Small golf (no longer operated in Germany)
- All-around (track types concrete, Eternit, felt)
- Star golf (championships only in North Rhine-Westphalia)
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mumble
- German hole click
- English ring game
- Paille-Maille (historical forerunner of croquet and swing golf)
- Roque
- Soccer golf
Skittles
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Bowling (ten pin bowling)
- Canadian five-pin bowling
- Duckpin bowling
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Bowling
- Asphalt / Classic
- Bohle
- Three lanes (asphalt, screed, scissors)
- scissors
Pool games
Carom variants:
- Cadre (e.g. Cadre 47/1, Cadre 71/2)
- Three-cushion
- cover
- Free game
- Billiard Artistique
Pool variants:
Other variants:
Distance competitions
There are no tactical variants here: only the distance achieved counts. If necessary, the results of a team are added up.
- Boßeln
- Klootschießen ( Kloatscheeten )
- Stock shooting (ice stock sport or stock sport, long-distance shooting discipline )
Other games
The following games do not fit into any of the above families. Collective terms such as movement games, small games, gymnastics games , folk games or the like are sometimes used for some of them .
literature
- Marcus Rosenstein: The Ball Sports Lexicon. The ball and ball games in the world . Weinmann, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87892-062-8 .