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?
parts of the world. For example, in British and Australian English, "billiards" usually refers exclusively to the game of English billiards, while in American and Canadian English it is sometimes used to refer to a particular game or class of games, or to all cue games in general, depending upon dialect and context. In colloquial usage, the term "billiards" may be used colloquially to refer to pocket billiards games, such as pool, snooker, or Russian pyramid.
There are 3 major subdivisions of games
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