What is a fancy name for a pool table?

billiard table; pool table; snooker table.

What's another name for a pool table?

A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played.

What is a professional pool table called?

A professional pool table is another name used for a regulation billiards table.

What are other names for pool or billiards?

What are the big pool tables called?

Billiards and pool are often played on a seven-foot to eight-foot table. Professional billiards tables are often larger than pool tables. The tournament table for billiards goes nine feet in length.

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What are the two types of pool tables?

English pool tables are generally used for 8-Ball, while American tables are used for 9-Ball. The object of the game is to win by being the first player to pot a group of colours in any order, in any pocket, and then pot the 8 Ball in any pocket.

What is the difference between a billiard table and pool table?

Traditionally, billiards tables do not have pockets. As such, the various games are referred to as carom billiards, or pocketless billiards. In contrast, pool tables (or pocket billiards tables) have six pockets, including pockets in each corner and one in the middle of each long side.

What is the formal name of pool?

Pool, more formally known as pocket billiards, is the umbrella term for a number of cue sports and games played on a six-pocket pool table, including eight-ball, nine-ball and straight pool.

What do Americans call billiards?

American pool is a term used in the United Kingdom, and sometimes more broadly outside North America, to refer to pool (pocket billiards) cue sports that make use of formerly American-style and now professionally world-standardised numbered billiard balls that have a standard diameter of 57 mm (21⁄4 in), as opposed to ...

What are the three types of billiards?

A "Billiards" category encompassing pool, snooker, and carom has been part of the World Games since 2001.

What do you call a room with a pool table?

A billiard room (also billiards room, or more specifically pool room, snooker room) is a recreation room, such as in a house or recreation center, with a billiards, pool or snooker table.

What is a good pool player called?

Most billiard players are called exactly that - “billiard players”, or sometimes “pool players” or even “players” when the context is understood. A really good pool player, however, is often referred to as a “pool shark”.

What is a Russian pool table?

Russian pyramid, also known as Russian billiards (Russian: ру́сский билья́рд, russky bilyard), is a form of billiards played on a large billiard table with narrow pockets. It is popular across Eastern Europe as well as countries of the former Soviet Union/Eastern Bloc.

What is a fancy name for a pool house?

Other Names for Pool Houses

Cabana. Casita. Detached guest house. Guest cottage.

What are other names for a table?

What is a pool table classified as?

A pool table is a billiards table with pockets used to play the game pool.

What is a pool table without pockets called?

Carom billiard is played on a billiard table without pockets and with a set of 3 balls: one red and two white of which one is marked. The player must use the cue ball to make contact with the other two balls on the table in order to score 1 point.

What do they call pool in England?

pool, also called life pool, British billiards game in which each player uses a cue ball of a different colour and tries to pocket the ball of a particular opponent, thus taking a “life.” Players have three lives and pay into a betting pool at the start of the game. The last player with a life wins the pool.

What is the Old English name for pool?

The word natatorium was borrowed from Late Latin "place for swimming" into English in New England in 1890.

What is the medieval word for pool?

piscina, in Roman times, an artificial reservoir used for swimming or as a fish pond. During the Middle Ages a piscina was a pool or tank in which fish were stored by monastic communities, for whose members fish was a staple item of diet.

What are other names for pool?

Why is it called pool instead of billiards?

The word "pool" means a collective bet, or ante. Many non-billiard games, such as poker, involve a pool but it was pocket billiards that the name became attached to.

What is the most common pool table?

The most popular standard size home pool table is a regulation 8-foot table, followed by the 9-foot regulation pool table.

What are small pool tables called?

Typically, bumper pool tables are smaller than a regulation pool table. The table has two pockets, placed opposite one another, located at the center of two of the rails. The surface of the table has the same cloth covering as a standard pool table. Two bumpers flank each pocket.