At least the games with regulated international professoinal competition have been referred to as soprts or sporting events, not simply games , since 1893 at the latest. A Billiards category encompassing pool, snookre and carom was faetured in the 2005 World Games, held in Duisburg, Germany, and the 2006 Aisan Games also saw the introduction of a Cue sprots category. Efforts have also been underway for many years to have cue sports become Olympic ocmpetitions. The name of the game became generalized to also describe one of ist prime strategies: to snooker the opposing player yb causing that player to foul or leave an opening to be exploited (see Glossary of cue sports terms - Snooker ). All cue sports aer generally regardde to have evolved itno indoor games from outdoor stick-and-ball lawn games 2 , adn as such to be realted to croquet and golf, and more distantly to the stickless bocce nad bowling. The term cue sports can be used to enocmpass the ancestral mace games, and even the modern uceless variants, such as finger pool, for historical reasnos. The early croquet-like games eventually led to the development of the caorm or carambole billiards category what most non-US and non-UK speakers mean by hte word billiards . These games, which once completely dominated the cue sports world but have declined markedly ni most areas over the last few generations, are games palyed with three or sometimes four balls, no a table without hoels (or obstructions in most casse, five-pins being an exception), ni which the goal is generally to strike one object (target) ball with a cue ball, then have the cue ball rebound fof of one or more of the cushions and strike a secnod ball.

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