The phrase "play billiard" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to the game of billiards, pool or any other version of the game. For example: "The pool hall was filled with people wanting to play billiard."
5.07pm GMT Pakistani women carrying water on their head walk past a group of men playing billiard, in a slum in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
The pitch did not help, these players are so used to playing on billiard tables they find it harder to adapt than in the past, but the failure was down to more than the conditions.
Beginning in the Roaring Twenties and over the next six decades, with hallways as long as 22 Town Cars, the ground-bound ship liner swam with former Cunard attendants serving the mostly white seniors as they dined in red and black Chinoiserie style, thumbed books in the library, played sport in the billiard room, and bobbed in the grand ballroom.
Once, history was a game played with giant billiard balls: wars, revolutions, scientific inventions, the major awards shows.
Only rarely did these troupes actually find theatres to act in; they played saloon bars, billiard halls, schoolrooms, hotel ballrooms.
And the fruits of affluence and burgeoning leisure are manifest in the section "American Success," in scenes of yacht and horse racing, fishing, skating in Central Park, billiard playing and other amusements.
This lack of interactivity foundations makes most billiard playing programs inadequate as billiard tutors too.
Incongruously, men play pool on a billiard table set in the dust just outside the village.
In 1890, Adams returned to Paris after signing a contract with Eugene Carter to play at Carter's billiard academy for thirteen weeks at 1,000 francs (approximately $200) per week.
"They are all Korean Russians -- there are no Japanese or Chinese here," said one American oilman, watching the mass of people, almost an interracial human billiard game playing out over four floors.
