==Sports== '''Pelota''' (Spanish for ''ball'') can refer to the popular and shortened names for a number of ball games:
* Basque pelota * Chaza * Jai alai * Mesoamerican ballgame * Palla * Pelota mixteca * Valencian pilota * Frontenis * Pétanque * Racketlon
==Other uses== *Pelota (boat), an improvised skin boat for crossing rivers. *Protein pelota homolog a protein encoded by the ''PELO'' gene {{set index}}