I love 'cue sports' like billiards and whatnot. Cue sports are games of skill played with a cue stick, where you strike balls and make them move around a table with pockets they fall in on the corners and sides.
Shooting pool is a lot of fun. I haven't played pool in a long time.  What's your favorite type of pool game?
In British and Australian English, 'billiards' refers only to the game of English billiards while in American and Canadian English it gets used to refer to a class of games or to all cue games in general. I like straight pool.