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2. Cue stick - Wikipedia

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   A player using a cue stick to push a billiard ball forward to move an object ball A pool cue and its major parts. [1]: 71–72 [2]A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards.

3. Cue sports - Wikipedia

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   Carom billiards balls are larger than pool balls, having a diameter of 61.5 mm (2 + 7 ⁄ 16 in), and come as a set of two cue balls (one colored or marked) and an object ball (or two object balls in the case of the game four-ball). Standard pool balls are 57.15 mm (2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in), are used in many pool games found throughout the world, come ...

4. Comparison of cue sports - Wikipedia

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   Pool, also called "pocket billiards", is a form of billiards usually equipped with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls), played on a pool table with six pockets built into the rails, splitting the cushions. The pockets (one at each corner, and one in the center of each long rail) provide targets (or in some cases, hazards) for ...

5. Cue sports techniques - Wikipedia

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   When a sliding cue ball contacts an object ball dead-on (a center-to-center hit), the cue ball and object ball are of the same mass, and neither follow nor draw is on the cue ball at the moment of impact, the cue ball will transfer all of its momentum to the object ball and come to a complete stop; this is a stop shot. If the sliding cue ball ...

6. Category:Pool (cue sports) - Wikipedia

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   This category is for pool family of cue sports, including eight-ball, nine-ball, blackball, straight pool, and others. The main article for this category is Pool (cue sports) . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pool (cue sports) .

7. Glossary of cue sports terms - Wikipedia

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   The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.