Exercise ball ball, ball, fitness ball, gym ball, gymnastic ball, physio ball, pilates ball, naval mine, Pezzi ball, stability ball, Swedish ball, therapy ball, or yoga ball. The physical object known as a "Swiss Ball" was developed in 1963 by Aquilino Cosani, an Italian plastics manufacturer. He perfected a process for moulding large puncture-resistant plastic balls. Those balls, then known as "Pezzi balls", were first used in treatment programs for newborns and infants by Mary Quinton, a British physiotherapist working in Switzerland. Later, Dr. Susanne Klein-Vogelbach, the director at the Physical Therapy School in Basel, Switzerland, integrated the use of ball exercise
Ball (dance party) Ball (dance party) A ball is a formal dance party. Social dance forms a large part of the evening; actual ballroom dancing may or may not occur. The word "ball" derives from the Latin word "ballare", meaning "to dance"; the Latin word also developed into French "baller"—from where it swapped into languages like English or German—, and "bailar", the Spanish and Portuguese verbs for "to dance" (although all three Romance languages also know "danser", "danzar" and "dançar" respectively). Catalan uses the same word, "ball", for the dance event. A well-documented ball occurred at Kingston Lacy, Dorset, England, on 19 December