Bowling
This article is about bowling in general. For specific types of bowling, see Ten-pin bowling, Duckpin bowling, Candlepin bowling, Nine-pin bowling, and Five-pin bowling. For other uses of the term, see Bowling (disambiguation)
Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls or throws a bowling ball toward pins or another target.
In pin bowling, the goal is to knock over pins at the end of a lane, with either two or three balls per frame allowed to knock down all pins. A strike is achieved when all the pins are knocked down on the first roll, and a spare is achieved all the pins are knocked over on a second roll. Lanes have wood or synthetic surfaces onto which oil is applied in different oil patterns. Common types of pin bowling include ten-pin, candlepin, duckpin, nine-pin, and five-pin bowling.
In target bowling, the aim is usually to get the ball as close to a mark as possible. The surface may be grass, gravel, or a synthetic surface. Bowls, skittles, kegel, bocce, carpet bowls, pétanque, and boules may have both indoor and outdoor varieties.
Bowling is played by 100 million people in more than 90 countries (including 70 million in the United States), and is the subject of video games.
In the U.S. and Canada, the term bowling usually refers to ten-pin bowling, whereas in the U.K. and Commonwealth countries the term often denotes lawn bowls.
Skittles (noun)
plural of skittle
Skittles (noun)
A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.
Skittles (noun)
An informal form of chess played without a clock.
Bowling (verb)
present participle of bowl
Bowling (noun)
A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling
Bowling (noun)
Candlepin bowling.
Bowling (noun)
Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
Bowling (noun)
The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
Bowling (noun)
A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
Bowling (noun)
The action of the verb bowl.
Bowling (noun)
Road bowling.
Bowling (noun)
the game of bowls as a sport or recreation.
Bowling (noun)
the game of tenpin bowling.
Bowling (noun)
the game of skittles.
Bowling (noun)
the action of a bowler in sending down balls towards the batsman’s wicket
“fast bowling”
Bowling (noun)
the bowlers in a team
“on paper their bowling looks weak”