BOWLING Definition & Meaning

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bowling

[ boh-ling ]

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noun

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 ).
the game of bowls; lawn bowling.
an act or instance of playing or participating in any such game:
Bowling is a pleasant way to exercise.

bowling

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noun

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)
the game of bowls
cricket the act of delivering the ball to the batsman
modifier of or relating to bowls or bowling
a bowling team

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Origin of bowling¹

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

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There were videos from bowling nights and rap battles with colleagues.

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At high school, he joined the bowling team to satisfy his extracurricular requirements, as it seemed "a great way to be in sport without being in a sport".

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Whether this is an acceptance of his England Test career being over, only 35-year-old Bairstow will know but Division One bowling attacks will be on red alert.

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When out and about at a bar, or at a bowling alley, the couple say that when people rudely stare at them, they wish they'd just say, "Hi."

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"I know my body can take quite a lot when it comes to bowling in four-day cricket," Anderson said.

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