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.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of bowling¹

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

Example Sentences

If and when the injury heals, the Australia skipper would still need time to gradually increase the intensity of his bowling, a period which McDonald admitted would take at least four weeks.

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What he really wanted was the pint-size soccer balls, squishy baseballs, plastic bowling balls.

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Indeed, the topic of fast bowling will dominate the build-up to the series.

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Though the batting was a struggle, England proved once again that they have one of the most well-rounded bowling attacks to compete in these conditions.

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Here, given exclusively pace bowling to face at the start of her innings - another strange New Zealand call - she did not offer a chance in reaching three figures with her powerful drives particularly eye-catching.

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