You ask about "billiards" not "pocket billiards". There is no difference in the British or American version. A billiard table has no pockets. All three-cushion games are the same. All balk line games are played by the same rules. Now if you are talki...
This is another one of those questions that keeps getting asked over and over with slightly different wording. Check the archives and you'll find this question at least a dozen times. Anyway, in a nutshell, "billiards" is an all-encompassing term whi...
well, it takes skill, practice, balls are involved, you use lots of muscles and its very competitive. i would say it is a sport.