- 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
- lawn bowling
- the playing of either of these games
- Cricket the act of throwing the ball to the batsman
bowling
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bowling
noun
- 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.
- Lawn bowling.
- The playing of one of these games.
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Verb
- Present participle of bowl.
Noun
(uncountable)
- A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling
- (New England) candlepin bowling
- Several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
- (cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
- (slang) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
- (gerund) The action of the verb bowl.
- (Ireland) road bowling
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Sentence Examples
- But though the same statute absolutely prohibited bowling alleys, Henry VIII.
- Young boys used to manually set up bowling pins after each frame.
- Jack ran from the house to greet them, nearly bowling Brady over.
- The Bowling Associations of Victoria and New South Wales were established in 1880, and it was not until 1892 that the Scottish Bowling Association was founded.
- He declined an invitation to join Fred and two neighborhood cronies for bowling, but had no desire to stick around the house all day either.
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