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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

/ ˈ��əʊ��ɪŋ /

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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Word History and Origins

Origin of bowling¹

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

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They fled in the hair mogul’s car and dumped the knife in a hole and tossed their clothes near a bowling alley.

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According to analysts CricViz, there is not one line of pace bowling Pooran does not strike at more than 200 against at the death.

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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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bowline bowling alley

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