Ball bearings use rolling friction instead of sliding friction.
Since rolling friction is less than sliding friction, sliding friction is replaced with rolling friction in most machines using ball bearings.
Most machines use ball bearings to reduce the energy lost in friction since rolling friction is smaller than sliding friction.
Ball bearing is a device which usually converts: (a) rolling friction into sliding friction (b) static friction into sliding friction (c) sliding friction into rolling friction (d) rolling friction into static friction