What is the real name for cue sports????

Question

Cue sports include games like: Three cushion billiard, Snooker, and Pool. I had already read many articles about this but it seems that theres is many names for this games.

What is their real names and their history???

Answer 1

Cue sports are generally of two varieties. Carom games, or pocket billiards.

Carom billiards or carombole games are also commonly referred to as billiard games. These are played on tables with no pockets. The objective in these games is usaully to contact object balls with the cue ball by caroming off one and then hitting the other. In 3cushion you must hit three cushions in the process. Its obviously more complicated than that, but thats the jist of it. Balkline billiards is anothe common game.

Pocket billiards is another term for all games played on tables with pockets. Usually it is taken to mean pool specifically, but snooker or any other game on these tables can be called pocket billiards. In general, the goal is to contact an object ball with the cue ball, causing the object ball to go into one of the six pockets.

As far as all the individual games goes, there are to many to list. See the links below for some more info.

Answer 2

Chris I would be up till daylight to list all the diffrent games ck the BCA website -and others for all the games

Saying cue sports is like saying ball games it covers a lot of diff games

Answer 3

Cue sports is the general name for, well all game played with a cue stick :), including the game you've mentioned and about hundreds of more.

The history of cue sports or billiards games begins in 15th France. It used to be called billiart, and instead of today's cue stick it was played with a masse. The first billiard game was invented as an indoor variation of a loan game(that's why there's a green felt on the table)

Snooker was invented and the end of the 19th century in a British army base in India. The word "snooker" derived from an army slang means rookie, which was then referred to newbie snooker player.