bowling

(bōl)

noun

  1. a game in which a heavy ball is bowled along a wooden lane in an attempt to knock over ten large wooden pins that are set upright at the far end
  2. lawn bowling
  3. the playing of either of these games
  4. Cricket the act of throwing the ball to the batsman

See bowling in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. a. A game played by rolling a ball down a wooden alley in order to knock down a triangular group of ten pins. Also called tenpins.
    b. A similar game, such as duckpins or ninepins.
  2. Lawn bowling.
  3. The playing of one of these games.

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