Glossary of cue sports terms Glossary of cue sports terms The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: "carom (or carambole) billiards" referring to the various games played on a billiard table without ; "pool (pocket billiards)", which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and "snooker", played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool. There are also hybrid pocket/carom games such as English billiards. The term "" is sometimes used to refer to all of the cue sports, to a specific
Russian pyramid Russian pyramid Russian pyramid, also known as Russian billiard (, , ) or simply billiards in Russia and Ukraine, is a pocket billiards game, played on a table similar to a snooker table with narrow pockets. It is popular across Eastern Europe as well as countries of the former Soviet Union/Eastern Bloc. A variant with colored balls modeled on those of pool is known as Russian pool. Another variant, , is popular in Finland. In Western countries, the game is known as pyramid billiards. Russian pyramid is considered to be one of the most difficult billiards games. There are several