Tag:sport=billiards

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Billiards Rack.JPG
Description
Cue sports, a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber cushions. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: sports
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Useful combination
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Status: in use

Summary

This tag can be used for pubs or bars offering the feature of billiards, or with other sport-related tags such as shop=sports.

Description

[W] Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports,[1][2] are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber cushions.

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 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.

There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports:

More obscurely, there are games that make use of obstacles and targets, and table-top games played with disks instead of balls.

How to Map

This value can be used with the sport tag on nodes node or areas area.

Useful Combination

Since this is a non-physical tag it should always be combined with some other (physical) tags, eg:

Optionally

  • billiards=NUMBER number of billiard-tables, if unknown use: yes

If you want to specify the type:

See also

Pictogram Example

Billiards Pictogram
A pictogram for Billiards

Photo Examples

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Footnotes

  1. “Recognized Sports”. www.olympic.org – Official Website of the Olympic Movement. Lausanne, Switzerland: International Olympic Committee. 2009 [copyright date]. pp. "Sports" section. Retrieved 2009-06-01. 
  2. “WCBS”. Billiard-WCBS.org. Lausanne: World Confederation of Billiard Sports. 2005 [last known year of update]. pp. Homepage and very name of organization. Retrieved 2009-06-01.