bowling

The word “bowling” means a game in which a ball is rolled down a lane to knock over a set of standing pins. In plain terms, the activity of rolling a ball at pins (tenpin bowling), or delivering the ball in cricket.

“Bowling” is pronounced BOH-lihng (/ˈboʊlɪŋ/ in IPA).

Here is “bowling” used in a sentence: “We went bowling on Friday night and I got two strikes.”

“Bowling” is a noun.

“Bowling” is a fairly common word in modern English.

“Bowling” has 2 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: a game in which a ball is rolled down a lane to knock over a set of standing pins.

Bowling usually means the indoor game in which a ball is rolled down a lane to knock over a set of standing pins. Bowls, also called lawn bowls, is a different game, usually played outdoors on grass, in which players roll weighted balls as close as possible to a smaller target ball called the jack.

In cricket, bowling is the action of delivering the ball toward the batsman. It is roughly cricket's counterpart to pitching in baseball, but the ball is delivered with a straight-arm action and usually bounces on the pitch before reaching the batsman.

Standard tenpin bowling uses ten pins arranged in a triangle at the end of the lane. Variants differ: candlepin and duckpin bowling also use ten smaller pins, while five-pin bowling, popular in Canada, uses five.