Tag:sport=billiards
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Cue sports, a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber cushions. 
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Summary
This tag can be used for pubs or bars offering the feature of billiards, or with other sport-related tags such as shop=sports.
Description
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Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports,[1][2] are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber cushions.
Historically, the umbrella term was billiards. While that familiar name is still employed by some as a generic label for all such games, the word's usage has splintered into more exclusive competing meanings in various parts of the world. For example, in British and Australian English, "billiards" usually refers exclusively to the game of English billiards, while in American and Canadian English it is sometimes used to refer to a particular game or class of games, or to all cue games in general, depending upon dialect and context.
There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports:
- Carom billiards, referring to games played on tables without pockets, typically 10 feet in length, including balkline and straight rail, cushion caroms, three-cushion billiards, artistic billiards and four-ball;
- Pool, covering numerous pocket billiards games generally played on six-pocket tables of 7-, 8-, or 9-foot length, including among others eight-ball (the world's most widely played cue sport), nine-ball, ten-ball, straight pool, one-pocket and bank pool; and
- Snooker and English billiards, games played on a billiards table with six pockets called a snooker table (which has dimensions just under 12 ft by 6 ft), that are classified entirely separately from pool based on a separate historical development, as well as a separate culture and terminology that characterize their play.
More obscurely, there are games that make use of obstacles and targets, and table-top games played with disks instead of balls.
How to Map
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 | Spelling: bil-li-ard-s |
Useful Combination
Since this is a non-physical tag it should always be combined with some other (physical) tags, eg:
Optionally
- billiards=NUMBER number of billiard-tables, if unknown use: yes
If you want to specify the type:
- billiards:pool=NUMBER number of tables
- billiards:snooker=NUMBER number of tables
- billiards:carom=NUMBER number of wikipedia:Carom billiards tables (also called carambol)
- billiards:footpool=NUMBER number of tables (also called soccer billiards table or snookball)
- billiards:golf=NUMBER number of holes (this is like miniature_golf with cue)
See also
Pictogram Example
Photo Examples
A racked set of billiards balls
Billiards and Snookers
Billiards table
User:Dmitri Lytov at Buffalo Billiards, July 14
Günter Siebert (left) - German carom billiards player
Possible tagging mistakes
Footnotes
- ↑ “Recognized Sports”. www.olympic.org – Official Website of the Olympic Movement. Lausanne, Switzerland: International Olympic Committee. 2009 [copyright date]. pp. "Sports" section. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
- ↑ “WCBS”. Billiard-WCBS.org. Lausanne: World Confederation of Billiard Sports. 2005 [last known year of update]. pp. Homepage and very name of organization. Retrieved 2009-06-01.