billiards
n.n. a game where you hit balls on a table with a stick. You try to get the balls into pockets at the corners of the table.
n. a cue sport played on a table with balls and a cue stick. It is often used to refer specifically to the game of pool in North America.
He plays billiards every Saturday night at the local club.
The hotel offers a private room for billiards and a small bar for spectators to watch the matches.
While the rules of billiards vary slightly depending on the specific variant being played, the fundamental objective remains the same: to pocket the balls in a specific order using a cue stick.
From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).