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bowling

[ boh-ling ]

noun

  1. any of several games in which players standing at one end of an alley or green roll balls at standing objects or toward a mark at the other end, especially a game in which a heavy ball is rolled from one end of a wooden alley at wooden pins set up at the opposite end. Compare boccie, candlepins ( def 2 ), duckpins ( def 2 ), lawn bowling, ninepins ( def 1 ), tenpins ( def 1 ).
  2. the game of bowls; lawn bowling.
  3. an act or instance of playing or participating in any such game:

    Bowling is a pleasant way to exercise.



bowling

/ ˈbəʊlɪŋ /

noun

  1. any of various games in which a heavy ball is rolled down a special alley, usually made of wood, at a group of wooden pins, esp the games of tenpin bowling (tenpins) and skittles (ninepins)
  2. the game of bowls
  3. cricket the act of delivering the ball to the batsman
  4. modifier of or relating to bowls or bowling

    a bowling team

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bowling1

First recorded in 1525–35; bowl 2 + -ing 1
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Example Sentences

Brabner talked about the “MTV people” coming to Cleveland to get pictures of Pekar emptying the garbage and going bowling.

Some twits have gone on Twitter to suggest Spencer was being reckless when he went out bowling.

The 18-inch air ducts that feed the pipe rooms are each over 50 feet in length, large enough to fit a bowling ball.

In the eyes of the NRA, Rambo is as grave a threat to gun rights as The Fonz—or the director of Bowling for Columbine.

Paul employed his wife, a deacon in their Bowling Green presbyterian church, for damage control.

A cricket-match was in progress, but the bowling and batting were extremely wild, thanks to The Warren strong beer.

Even then the Prime Minister was with difficulty prevented from bowling during forbidden hours.

He made some remark about the beauty of the night, and a minute later he was bowling back in a hansom to Merehaven House.

The Wellington came bowling along under close-reefed topsails.

I snatched up a war-club, dropped by a slain savage, and hurled it into the thick of them, bowling over two.

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