I love 'cue sports' like billiards and whatnot. Cue sports are games of skill played with a cue stick, where you strike balls and make them move around a table with pockets they fall in on the corners and sides.
Shooting pool is a lot of fun. I haven't played pool in a long time.  What's your favorite type of pool game?
In British and Australian English, 'billiards' refers only to the game of English billiards while in American and Canadian English it gets used to refer to a class of games or to all cue games in general. I like straight pool.
Straight pool is the good way of having fun.   I didn't even know they had different types of billiards.  In fact I didn't even know billiards only refers to pool.  How interesting!
There's three kinds of games in cue sports. There's the ones that use obstacles and targets and the table-top games that use disks instead of balls. 
Pretty cool.  Is shuffleboard a part of billiard games?    How about fooseball?  probably butchered the spelling
Cue sports
Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports, 
are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as .
Historically, the umbrella term was billiards. While that familiar name is still employed by some as a generic label for all such games, the word's usage has splintered into more exclusive competing meanings in various
Comparison of cue sports
Carom billiards and pocket billiards (pool) are two types of cue sports or billiards-family games, which as a general class are played with a stick called a cue which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiard table bounded by rubber attached to the confining of the table.
"Carom or carambole billiards" (often simply called "billiards" in many varieties of non-British English) is a type of billiards in which the table is bounded