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Basque pelota (Basque: pilota, Spanish: pelota vasca, French: pelote basque) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall (frontis or fronton) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net. The roots of this ...
The Basque sport best known outside the Basque Country is Basque pelota. It is a Basque version of the family of ball games that covers squash , tennis , and real tennis , all of them thought to derive from the Jeu de paume and hence a relative of Valencian pilota .
fronton at Ossès Church. The front wall of the first frontons in villages was usually the wall of a church. Because the games being played close by, several priests would play pelota along with the villagers and got to be well-known players and often served as referees in provincial or town competitions [1] but were out of the picture when it turned into a commercialized sport.
La pelota vasca — 2003 political documentary about the Basque County, by Julio Medem Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pelota vasca .
Pelota court in Sara, Lapurdi. Basque rural sports, known as Herri Kirolak in Basque, are a number of sports competitions rooted in the traditional lifestyles of the Basque people, for example Basque pelota, the Basque version of the European game family that includes real tennis and squash. Basque players, playing for either the Spanish or the ...
Paleta frontón is a Peruvian sport that was born in the capital, Lima, in 1945. [1] This sport has its roots in the "pelota vasca" brought by the Spanish settlers, and the domestic "pelota mano", called "handball" at that time due to English influence.
Basque pelota (Spanish: Pelota vasca and Frontón, meaning pelota court), for the 2013 Bolivarian Games, took place from 18 November to 25 November 2013. [ 1 ] Medal table
It is a variation of Basque pelota. The term jai alai , coined by Serafin Baroja in 1875, is also often loosely applied to the fronton (the open-walled playing area) where matches take place. The game, whose name means "merry festival" in Basque, is called zesta-punta ("basket tip") in the Basque Country .