Billiard tables and games

Billiards has been around for some time now. It is a game played on a table with low rubber boundary around the edges, small balls, and a stick or "cue" used to push the white ball into other balls. Billiards is also used to refer to the entire family of billiard-like games including pool games, once called pocket billiards, and snooker. Learn more about billiard tables

All billiards games are generally regarded to have evolved into indoor games from outdoor stick and ball games. The word billiard may have evolved from the French word 'billart' which means mace, the forerunner to the modern cue.

Caroms and carom billiards are synonyms for billiards that help distinguish them from the other billiard-like games. Although the game billiards has been eclipsed by it's far more popular brethren (few modern pool halls have billiard tables) the name has escaped the seedier associations of pool halls and still finds employment where more "sophisticated" terms are needed.