Cue sports is historically called billiards.
I love to play pool although I'm not very skilled at it. How did this sport originate?
I'm not sure. Although that name is a generic label for all cue games. I'm like you and refer to it normally as pool.
Can you tell me more about cue games in general?
In British and Australia, billards usually refers to the english game of billiards. For Americans it's more a particular game or class of games.
Does billiards specifically refer to "pool" as we Americans call it?
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
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