Pool VS Billiards

Historically the umbrella term for the sport as a whole was billiards. While that familiar name is still employed variably as a generic name for all games, the word's usage has splintered into more inclusive competing meanings among certain groups and geographic regions.

In our time, the two can easily be exchanged and mean the same thing.  When people refer to one, it is assumed the other is also being included.  On the technical side, there is a difference.  Billiards is played with smaller balls.  In billiards, only three balls are used white, yellow and red and both the white and the yellow ball can act as the strikers.  Billiards is  basically pool without pockets. Usually the cloth on a billiards table is much faster. The object in billiards (3 cushion billiards) is to hit the object ball then go three rails and hit the other ball, or hit 3 rails and hit both object balls with the cue ball (these are called caroms).

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