Jai alai or its ball

Usage examples of pelota.

Don Rodrigo de Buen Lozano was a mature, elegant Asturian, a champion at pelota and partridge shooting, who compensated with his other attractions for being twenty-two years older than his wife.

Dochak immediately flung a pelota at Kitarak, who easily raised a shield to fend it off.

Chips of chitinous exoskeleton sprayed out from the impact, and the pelota careened into the lower stands, striking a slave on the head and dropping him like a limp rag.

Friday morning she had laughed, rung the Biarritz-Anglet airfield with a flight plan for take-off at noon, then gone out into the quiet grounds of the big house to make excuses to her hostess, Consuela, who was watching a hard-fought game between Willie Garvin and her husband, Etienne, in the shadow thrown by the towering wall of the pelota court.

He was not given to flattery, and had himself been a pelota champion ten years ago.

The clean-cut, mostly Spanish players strapped a basketlike cesta on their arm and propelled a hard ball, the pelota, at their opponents.

Number Seven charged the service line and caught the pelota on the fly for what should have been an easy, dribbling drop shot.

The other players went through the motions, but Pablo ran up the walls like an insane man and sent the pelota whistling by their ears.

He released late, from his hip, and the pelota flew out in the opposite direction, behind him.