Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
- n. A similar game, such as duckpins or ninepins.
- n. Lawn bowling.
- n. The playing of one of these games.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In dyeing, the washing of fabrics by passing them over rollers in a vessel of water.
- n. The act of playing with or at bowls.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of bowl.
- n. A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling
- n. New England candlepin bowling
- n. Several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
- n. cricket The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
- n. slang A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
- n. gerund The action of the verb bowl.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them
- n. (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman
- n. the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc
Examples
“Here and there, indeed, were smooth patches which we called bowling-greens, but hard and slippery as polished marble, with much the same translucent appearance.”
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
“So, pride be damned, he takes gigs in bowling alleys and nowheresville bars and clubs.”
“Playing bowling is one of the best pastimes that we should for some time, and Sheldon and Wil also plays in the new episode of Big Bang Theory The Wheaton …”
Planet-x.com.au » Big Bang Theory The Wheaton Recurrence Season 3 Episode 19 Stream …
“Once a big country-music star, he now drives himself around the Southwest playing one-night gigs at local bars, some of them located in bowling alleys.”
“The gameplay of Wii sports bowling is implemented through VI Bowling with a novel motor-learning feature that allows players to find the direction in which to throw their ball using vibrotactile feedback.”
VI Fit – Video Game Project to Help Blind Children Exercise | Impact Lab
“Probably as the Australian bowling is not good at test level.”
“But once you get that under control, bowling is easy. fostert says:”
Matthew Yglesias » Allies Call for Withdrawal of US Tactical Nuclear Weapons From Europe
“She talks about going bowling on an off day during the filming of “New Moon” — candlepin bowling, it sounds like from her description — and how difficult it was to keep score without the electronic aids present at most bowling alleys: “They handed me a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had to do the score by hand,” she says incredulously.”
“He beat his life skills coach in bowling, 96-71, Barnes says proudly.”
“If your playing with your own balls, bowling is heterosexual.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bowling’.
-
Ball Games and Sports
A list of games and sports played with a ball, including names of the courts, fields and pitches in which they are played.
I'll start the list with Basque pelota, which is played in Id...Basque pelota, bocce, pitch, crease, cricket, bowls, field, gridiron, court, basketball, netball, soccer and 106 more...
-
cricket
everything cricket
backlift, bail, batsman, batsmen, batswoman, batswomen, beamer, blockhole, bodyline, bosie, bouncer, boundary and 471 more...
-
Owls
owl, owls, bowl, howl, acknowledge, batfowl, barn owl, barred owl, bowlder, bowler, bowlegged, lawn bowling and 40 more...
-
Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
-
Malachi_Constant's Words
triumverate, pandemic, parsnip, delineate, zamboni, parka, laser, swoop, malevolent, benevolent, fracas, tipsy and 372 more...
-
OM2 Lesson 24
touch base, bowl, bowling, stair, sprain, crutch, stuck, mess up, ask for, church, sure thing, trafic light and 6 more...
-
Wide Wordie of Sports
soccer, baseball, football, basketball, polo, handball, triathlon, biathlon, heptathlon, decathlon, parkour, boxing and 56 more...
-
Words from The Big Lebowski
One of the best movies ever
dude, rug, White Russian, bowling, Walter, Donny, coitus, Vietnam, nihilist, toe, pomeranian, ringer and 4 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bowling.
chained_bear "Now before anyone lectures me about advising under the influence, please note that writing an advice column is a lot like bowling: Not only can you do it drunk, you're probably better at it drunk. My good friend Miss Manners won't even look at her mail until she's ripped to the tits."
—Dan Savage, "Savage Love," August 17, 2006 Aug 6, 2008
treeseed In the U.S. a term meant to refer to ten-pin bowling. Feb 3, 2008