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cue sports

skill games using cue stick to strike billiard balls
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Summary

cue sports is a sport with racquet/stick/club[1]. It draws 6,834 Wikipedia views per month (sport with racquet stick club category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: sport[3], table sports[4]
  • Commons category: Billiards[5]
  • Unicode character: 🎱[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cue sports[7]
  • Described at URL: https://baike.sogou.com/v194902.htm[8]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Cue sports[9]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: sport=billiards[10]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[12], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16]
  • Topic has template: Template:Cue sports[17]
  • Different from: shovel board[18]
  • Uses: billiard ball[19], billiard table[20], cue stick[21], chalk[22]
  • Practiced by: cue sports player[23]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24]

Why It Matters

cue sports has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · Putnik · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → biliardas
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: biliardas"
  2. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Bart Simpson
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 27XNfa
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0212098-kulecnik
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0212098-kulecnik, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → sport with racquet/stick/club
    Different from → shovel board
    Practiced by → cue sports player
    Subclass of → sport, table sports
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 10256, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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