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bowling
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bowling has 3 senses
- bowling(n = noun.act) Array - a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them; Array is a kind of game
- bowling(n = noun.act) Array - (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman; Array is a kind of throw
- bowling(n = noun.act) Array - the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc; Array is a kind of playing
has parts: frame
has particulars: tenpin bowling, tenpins, ninepins, skittles, duckpins, candlepin bowling, candlepins, bowls, lawn bowling, bocce, bocci, boccie
has particulars: chinaman, bosie, bosie ball, googly, wrong 'un, no ball
has parts: bowl, roll, run-up
CIDE DICTIONARY
bowling, n.
The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bowling, n. the game of bowls as a sport or recreation.
Idiom
bowling-alley
1 a long enclosure for skittles or tenpin bowling.
2 a building containing these. bowling-crease Cricket the line from behind which a bowler delivers the ball. bowling-green a lawn used for playing bowls.
1 a long enclosure for skittles or tenpin bowling.
2 a building containing these. bowling-crease Cricket the line from behind which a bowler delivers the ball. bowling-green a lawn used for playing bowls.
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