Pétanque
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Pétanque is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports. In these sports, players or teams play their boules/balls towards a target ball.
Pétanque players on the beach in Nice, 2005
Boules players on the Champs-Élysées around 1840
Boules player, by Paul Gavarny, 1858
Pétanque players in Cannes
Bocce
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Bocce, sometimes anglicized as bocce ball, bocci, or boccie, is a ball sport belonging to the boules family of games. Developed into its present form in Italy, it is closely related to English bowls a
Pétanque
…French: , locally in Provence ; Occitan: petanca ; Spanish: petanca ) is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports (along with raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, lawn bowls, and crown green bowling). In these sports, players or teams play their boules/balls towards a target ball. In pétanque…
Bocce players, 2026
An image of bocce embedded in a medieval manuscript
An Argentine family playing bocce in San Vicente, Buenos Aires, c. 1902
Bocce play in Los Gatos, California, United States in 2026