| NOUN | act | bowling | a game / game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them |
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| act | bowling | (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman | |
| act | bowling | the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc |
| Sounds | bow'lihng | |
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| Rhymes | abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng... | |
| Meaning | A game / game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them. | |
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| Category of | convert | score (a spare) |
| (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left | ||
| Parts | frame | One of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided |
| Narrower | bocce, bocci, boccie | Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court |
| candlepins, candlepin bowling | A bowling game / game using slender bowling pins | |
| duckpins | A bowling game / game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider | |
| lawn bowling, bowls | A bowling game / game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack | |
| ninepins, skittles | A bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | |
| tenpins, tenpin bowling | bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins | |
| Broader | game | A contest with rules to determine a winner |
| Spanish | boliche, bolos, bowling | |
| Catalan | botxes | |
| Meaning | (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman. | |
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| Category | cricket | A game / game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players |
| Narrower | Chinaman | A ball bowled by a left-handed bowler to a right-handed batsman that spins from off to leg |
| googly, wrong 'un, bosie, bosie ball | A cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way | |
| no ball | unlawfully delivered ball in cricket | |
| Broader | throw | The act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist) |
| Meaning | The playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc. | |
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| Category of | bowl | Roll (a ball) |
| Parts | roll, bowl | The act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) |
| run-up | The approach run during which an athlete gathers speed | |
| Broader | playing | The action of taking part in a game / game / game or sport or other recreation |
| Catalan | bitlles | |
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