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