bowling ball

noun

a round, heavy ball for bowling, usually made of hard rubber or plastic, with holes drilled into it for the bowler's thumb and two fingers.

A bowling ball and a balloon might be the same size, but one has a lot more mass than the other.

The kinds of holes mathematicians are looking for — closed and hollow — are found in basketballs, but not bowls or bowling balls.

The same amount of force would take longer to stop a bowling ball than to halt the soccer ball.

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

Nagle heard of one guy who got slammed in the stomach by a bowling ball that came rocketing out the back of the truck.

She was swinging the bowling-ball-shaped satchel at her side.

Nothing—except—small bowling-ball things rolling in through a narrow door.

He remembered holding the three boys at once, heavy as a bowling ball.

At the end of the rollway the log collided with other logs and stopped with the impact of one bowling ball against another.

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