Red ball

Red ball may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Events

• Red Ball (event) is an annual runway show charity event to raise awareness for World AIDS Day

Fictitious cases

• Red ball, a current murder case on the FOX television series Gotham, in the Season 2 episode "Knock Knock"
• Red ball, an impending murder, in the science fiction film Minority Report (in which the names of future victims of premeditated homicides appear on red balls after being predicted by a trio of psychics)

Television

• "Red Ball", Law & Order, season 16, episode 1
• "The Red Ball", season 3, episode 3 of the American animated television series The Boondocks (the title refers to the game of kickball, which uses the same red rubber balls as dodgeball)

Video games

• Red Ball, a series of browser games, first released in 2009
• Red Ball, the first game in the Red Ball series, released for the Adobe Flash Player in 2009

Law enforcement and military

• Red ball, a term used by the US Air Force, typically on the flight line, to identify aircraft maintenance issues that could prevent an on-time launch of aircraft. This is usually when aircrew are present, and thus given highest priority.
• Red ball or redball, jargon for a high-profile police case that draws media and political attention, often used in the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and the television shows based on it: Homicide: Life on the Street and The Wire.
• The Red Ball Express was a truck convoy system that supplied Allied forces in World War II.

Sports

• Red ball, any of the red set of object balls in the cue sport of blackball (a.k.a. British eightball pool)
• Red ball, the object ball that is neither player's cue ball in carom billiards

See Glossary of cue sports terms for more information

• Red ball, a red cricket ball used in test matches; by extension, the test matches themselves (e.g. "the team's red-ball performance"
• Red ball, any of the rack of one-point object balls in the cue sport of snooker