ball

a ball of wool; a ball of twine

[…] the Good Old Cause, which, as they seemed to represent it, smelt of Gunpowder and ball […]

What, though in solemn Silence, all / Move round the dark terrestrial Ball!

The children were playing ball on the beach.

George played his college ball at Stanford.

If you get to a million points, you get another ball.

After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno—Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut—nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes.

That’s a load of balls, and you know it!

I doubt he’s got the balls to tell you off.

The laxative alterative has not this advantage, the aloes, of which it is composed, being extremely bitter, and therefore requiring to be given in the form of a ball.