# 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
* Norah Balls (1886–1980), British suffragette, women's rights campaigner, magistrate, councillor
* 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

## Arts and entertainment
### 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
* Ballz, a 1994 fighting game
* The Ball (video game), a 2010 video game

### Music
#### 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
* "Balls" (Northern Exposure), 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)
* Bandy ball
* Baseball (ball), the physical object
** Ball (baseball statistics), a pitch outside the strike zone and not swung at by the batter
* Basketball (ball)
* Billiard ball
* Bowling 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
* Lacrosse ball
* Pickleball, the ball used in the game
** Ball!, a warning of an errant ball on the court
* Tennis ball
* Volleyball (ball)
* Water polo ball, used in Waterpolo and Canoe polo

## 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