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bowling
[ boh-ling ]
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
/ ˈəʊɪŋ /
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
Example Sentences
His dismissal was just the start of his side's woes, as Mumbai Indians' bowlers tore through the Rajasthan line-up, bowling them out for 117 in the 17th over to win by 100 runs.
All-rounder Stokes, with 210 Test wickets, has more scalps than any other active England bowler, though his bowling is likely to be restricted.
It takes me back to the times I was bowling for a place in the England team.
They fled in the hair mogul’s car and dumped the knife in a hole and tossed their clothes near a bowling alley.
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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