The ball that is used to play a sport. / (squash) The state of play when the server can win the game by scoring one more point.

(basketball, derogatory) A style of play where a single player tries to be the team's hero by taking and missing many low percentage shots.

A carnival game in which the player is challenged to bounce a ball off an angled board so that it lands in a basket.

A form of hockey similar to ice hockey, played on foot on a hard surface (typically a hockey rink with a concrete surface), using a hard plastic ball in place of a hockey puck. / (Canada) Street hockey.

plural of tape ball

(countable) A tennis ball wrapped in electrical tape, used in playing street cricket in Asia. / (uncountable) The game of cricket played using such a ball.

The lens of a camera obscura mounted in a ball that fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be easily turned, like the eye, to different parts of the landscape.

plural of scioptic ball

Alternative form of play the ball and not the man

present participle of play the ball