Ball (disambiguation)

A ball is a spherical round object with various uses.

Ball(s) or The Ball may also refer to:

Places

 * Ball (crater), a crater on the Moon
 * Ball, Cornwall, a hamlet in the north of Cornwall, England, UK
 * Ball, Louisiana, a town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, US
 * Balls (mountain range), a mountain range in Madera County, California, US

People with the surname

 * Ball (surname), a list of people with the surname Ball
 * Ed Balls, a British politician
 * Katy Balls, a British journalist
 * William Lawrence Balls, a British botanist

Anatomy

 * Ball (foot), a bottom part of the foot
 * Balls, a slang word for testicles, which may also apply to chutzpah or bravery

Film and theatre

 * Le Bal (1931 film), a French film
 * The Ball (1958 film) (Mingea), a Romanian film
 * Le Bal (1983 film), an Algerian film
 * Balls (film) (Swedish: Farsan), a 2010 Swedish comedy film
 * The Ball (2011), an Australian documentary, runner up for the 2011 AACTA Award for Best Documentary Under One Hour
 * The Ball (play), a 1632 play by James Shirley

Games

 * Ball (Game & Watch), a game for the Nintendo Game & Watch
 * The Ball (video game), a 2010 video game

Groups

 * Balls (rock band), a 1969–1971 British rock band
 * B.A.L.L., a 1987–1990 American rock band

Albums

 * Ball (Iron Butterfly album), 1969
 * Ball (Widespread Panic album), 2003
 * Balls (Elizabeth Cook album), 2007
 * Balls (Sparks album), 2000
 * Balls (EP), by Guttermouth, 1991
 * Balls, by Napoleon Murphy Brock, 2003

Songs

 * "Ball" (song), by T.I., 2012
 * "Ball", by DJ Khaled from Victory, 2010
 * "Ball", by Susumu Hirasawa from Sword-Wind Chronicle BERSERK Original Soundtrack, 1997
 * "The Ball", from the musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, 2012
 * "Un bal", the second movement of Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz, 1830

Television

 * Balls (TV channel), a defunct Filipino sports channel
 * "The Ball" (Dynasty 1985), an episode
 * "The Ball" (Dynasty 1986), an episode
 * "The Ball" (Kanon), an episode

Brands and enterprises

 * Ball (St. Paul's Churchyard), an historical bookseller in London
 * Ball Corporation, a U.S. packaging manufacturer and metal can maker
 * Ball Watch Company

Computing and technology

 * BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library), a versatile set of C++ classes for molecular modelling
 * Blog Assisted Language Learning, an application of computer-assisted language learning

Schools

 * Ball High School, a public secondary school in Galveston, Texas, US
 * Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, US

Social gatherings

 * Ball (dance party)
 * The Ball (event), a NYC Jewish singles event on Christmas Eve

Sports

 * Ball (rhythmic gymnastics)
 * Baseball (ball), the physical object
 * Ball (baseball statistics), a pitch outside the strike zone and not swung at by the batter
 * Basketball (ball)
 * Cricket ball, the physical object
 * Ball (cricket) or delivery, a single action of bowling
 * Football (ball)
 * Ball (association football)
 * Gaelic ball
 * Ball (gridiron football)
 * Rugby ball
 * Golf ball
 * Handball (ball)
 * Pickleball, the ball used in the game
 * Ball!, a warning of an errant ball on the court
 * Softball (ball)
 * Tennis ball
 * Whiffle ball or wiffle ball

Other uses

 * Ball (bearing), special highly spherical and smooth balls, most commonly used in ball bearings
 * Ball (mathematics), the solid interior of a sphere
 * Ball of wax example, also known as the wax argument, a thought experiment by René Descartes in his Meditations on First Philosophy
 * Boule de Genève (Geneva ball), a type of pendant watch in the shape of a small ball
 * Times Square Ball or the Ball
 * Round shot or cannonball or ball, a round projectile fired from guns and cannons