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Countryballs. Countryballs, also known as Polandball, [a] is a geopolitical satirical art style, genre, and Internet meme, predominantly used in online comics strips in which countries or political entities are personified as balls [b] with eyes, decorated with their national flags. Comics feature the characters in various scenarios, generally ...
Choctaw Indian Fair World Series. Indigenous North American stickball [1] is a team sport typically played on an open field where teams of players with two sticks each attempt to control and shoot a ball at the opposing team's goal. [2] It shares similarities to the game of lacrosse. In Choctaw Stickball, "Opposing teams use handcrafted sticks ...
Mesoamerican ballgame. The ball in front of the goal during a game of pok-ta-pok, 2006. The Mesoamerican ballgame ( Nahuatl languages: ōllamalīztli, Nahuatl pronunciation: [oːlːamaˈlistɬi], Mayan languages: pitz) was a sport with ritual associations played since at least 1650 BC [ 1] by the pre-Columbian people of Ancient Mesoamerica.
Bocce ( / ˈbɒtʃi /, [ 1][ 2] or / ˈbɒtʃeɪ /, [ 3] Italian: [ˈbɔttʃe] ), sometimes anglicized as bocce ball, [ 4] bocci, [ 5] or boccie, [ 1] is a ball sport belonging to the boules family. Developed into its present form in Italy, it is closely related to British bowls and French pétanque, with a common ancestry from ancient games ...
Type. Indoor–outdoor. Equipment. pelota, xistera /cesta. Jai alai ( / ˈhaɪ.əlaɪ / HYE-ə-lye: [ˈxai aˈlai]) is a sport involving bouncing a ball off a walled-in space by accelerating it to high speeds with a hand-held wicker, commonly referred to as a cesta. It is a variation of Basque pelota.
In 1856, William George Beers, a Canadian dentist, founded Montreal Lacrosse Club. He codified the game in 1867 to shorten the length of each game, reduce the number of players, use a redesigned stick, and use a rubber ball. The first game played under Beers' rules was at Upper Canada College in 1867.
Polo or Chovgan is a ball game that is played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. [ 9] It originated in ancient Persia (modern-day Iran ), dating back over 2,000 years. Initially played by Persian nobility as a training exercise for cavalry units, polo eventually spread to other parts of the ...
Maya Ballgame, which is a branch of the Mesoamerican Ballgame, is a sporting event that was played throughout the Mesoamerican era by the Maya civilization, which was distributed throughout much of Central America. One of the common links of the Mayan culture of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize is the game played with a rubber ball ...