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pelota

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pelota (pəlō`tə): see jai alai jai alai , handball-like game of Spanish Basque origin. It is also called pelota. Jai alai is played on a three-walled court with a hard rubber ball that must be hurled against the front wall with the cesta, a wicker basket attached to the player's arm.
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pelota

(Spanish: “little ball”) Any of several games in which players take turns, using a glove or implement, hitting a rubber ball either directly at one another or off a wall. The latter version is related to handball and jai alai, which are played by two or four players on one-, two-, or three-walled courts using gloves, rackets, or bats. In Spain and elsewhere, pelota is a professional sport on which spectators wager.


pelota
any of various games played in Spain, Spanish America, SW France, etc., by two players who use a basket strapped to their wrists or a wooden racket to propel a ball against a specially marked wall
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The celebration focuses on Basque culture such as Basque pelota games, oxen wagers, stone lifting contests, dance exhibitions and the cider tasting festival among others.
Bulldozers sent by city authorities last month reduced to rubble the only courts in Mexico City set up for Pelota Mixteca and Tarasca -- modern versions of ball games once played for princes and now popular among poor communities in south and central Mexico and immigrants in California.
Los ninos tambien tienen la oportunidad de jugar en la zona de juegos, montan sus bicicletas o juegan a la pelota.
 
 
 
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