This is a list of ball games and ball sports that include a ball as a key element in the activity, usually for scoring points.

Ball games

Ball sports fall within many sport categories, some sports within multiple categories, including:

• Bat-and-ball games, such as cricket and baseball.
• Invasion games, such as football and basketball.
• Net and wall games, such as volleyball.
• Racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis, squash and badminton.
• Throwing sports, such as dodgeball and bocce.
• Cue sports, such as pool and snooker.
• Target sports, such as golf and bowling.
• Hand and ball-striking games, such as various handball codes, rebound handball, and four square.

Popular ball games

Games that are similar and have a common reference are grouped under the primary name such as bowling, football and hockey.

A–E

• Angleball
• Apalachee ball game
  • Crossminton
• Bandy
  • Rink bandy
    • Rinkball
• Baseball
  • Baseball5
• Basketball
  • 3x3 (basketball)
  • Wheelchair basketball
• Basque pelota
  • Frontenis
  • Jai alai
  • Xare
• Beach tennis
• Bossaball
• Boules
  • Bocce
  • Bocce volo
  • Boccia
  • Bolas criollas
  • Bowls or "lawn bowls"
  • Jeu provençal
  • Pétanque
  • Raffa (boules)
• Bowling
  • Candlepin bowling
  • Carpet bowls
  • Duckpin bowling
  • Five-pin bowling
  • Nine-pin bowling
  • Ten-pin bowling
  • Irish road bowling
• Brännboll
• British baseball
• Broomball
• Canoe polo i
• Cestoball
• Codeball
• Cricket (see cricket ball)
  • Backyard cricket
  • Twenty20
  • Kwik cricket
  • Vigoro
• Croquet
  • Roque
• Crossnet
• Cue sports (also knowns as billiards)
  • Carom billiards
  • English billiards
  • Pool (or pocket billiards)
  • Snooker
• Cycle ball
• Dodgeball
• Downball

F–K

• Fistball
• Fives
• Flag football
• Flickerball
• Football
  • Association football (soccer)
    • Futsal
    • Indoor soccer
    • Beach soccer
  • Australian rules football
  • Calcio fiorentino
  • English public school football games
  • Gaelic football
  • Gridiron football
    • American football
    • Canadian football
    • Indoor football
      • Arena football
  • Football tennis
  • International rules football
  • Medieval football games
  • Rugby football
    • Rugby league
    • Rugby union
      • Rugby sevens
    • Beach rugby
    • Underwater rugby
    • Wheelchair rugby
  • Underwater football
  • Volata
• Footvolley
• Four square
• Goalball
• Golf
  • Mini Golf
• Half-rubber
• Handball
  • American handball
  • Australian handball
  • Beach handball
  • Field handball
  • Gaelic Handball
• Hooverball
• Hockey
  • Bandy
    • Rink bandy
      • Rinkball
  • Field hockey
    • Indoor field hockey
  • Floor hockey
    • Floorball
    • Roller hockey
      • Roller hockey (quad)
  • Street hockey
• Hocker (defunct)
• Hurling
• Jai alai
• Jokgu
• Jorkyball
• Juggling
• Kickball
• Kick-to-kick (includes end-to-end footy)
• Kin-Ball
• Klootschieten
• Knuckleball
• Korfball

L–P

• Lacrosse
  • Box Lacrosse
  • Field lacrosse
  • Intercrosse
• Lawn bowls
• Loofball
• Mesoamerican ballgame
• Netball
  • Fast5
• Newcomb ball
• Padbol
• Paddle ball
• Paddle-ball
• Paddle tennis
• Padel
• Paintball
• Palin
• Pelota mixteca
• Pesäpallo
• Picigin
• Pickleball
• Polo
  • Bicycle polo
  • Canoe polo
  • Elephant polo
  • Horseball
  • Polocrosse
  • Segway polo
  • Yak polo
• Pushball

Q–Z

• Quidditch
• Racquetball
• Ringball
• Rock-It-Ball
• Rounders
• Sepak takraw
• Shinty
• Sipa
• Skee ball
• Slamball
• Softball
• Squash
• Stickball
• Stickball (Native American)
• Streetball
• Table football (foosball)
• Table tennis (ping pong)
• TagPro (esports)
• Tchoukball
• Team handball
• Tee ball
• Tennis
• Tetherball
• Teqball
• Ulama
• Valencian pilota
  • Escala i corda
  • Galotxa
  • Galotxetes
  • Llargues
  • Raspall
  • Valencian fronto
• Underwater sports
• Volleyball
  • Beach volleyball
  • Sitting volleyball
  • Snow volleyball
• Waboba
• Water basketball
• Water polo
• Welsh handball
• Wiffleball
• Wireball