Fives
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Fives is an English handball sport derived from jeu de paume, similar to the games of handball, Basque pelota, and squash. The game is played in both singles and doubles teams, in an either three- or four-sided court.
A game of Rugby fives in progress
Fives wall in South Petherton, Somerset
Fives courts at Eton
A buttress at the High Elms Country Park Eton fives courts
Basque pelota
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Basque pelota 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 or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net. The roots of this class of games can be traced to the Greek and other ancient cultures.
A game of pelota as played in Ustaritz
Basque Pelota's game under the Hondarribia's City walls, by Gustave-Henri Colin in 1863.
Frontoi in Ainhoa (Labourd)
Playing paleta at the trinquet of Elizondo (Navarre)