bowling
Other forms: bowlings
If you love bowling you're a fan of rolling a ball down a long lane and hoping it will knock down the pins at the end. The ball you roll is called a bowling ball.
Bowling classically involves very heavy balls that are rolled down the polished wood of a lane, with open gutters at each side, toward the ten pins arranged at the end. Other versions of bowling have smaller balls, differently shaped pins, and different numbers of pins — but the goal is always to knock as many of them over as possible. The game was originally known as "playing at bowls."
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a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving themtypes:ninepins, skittlesa bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pinsduckpinsa bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately widerbowls, lawn bowlinga bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jacktype of:gamea contest with rules to determine a winner
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the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etctype of:playingthe action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation
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(cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsmantypes:Chinamana ball bowled by a left-handed bowler to a right-handed batsman that spins from off to legbosie, bosie ball, googly, wrong 'una cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite wayno ballunlawfully delivered ball in crickettype of:throwthe act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)
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