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bowling

[ boh-ling ]

noun

  1. 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 ).
  2. the game of bowls; lawn bowling.
  3. an act or instance of playing or participating in any such game:

    Bowling is a pleasant way to exercise.



bowling

/ ˈəʊɪŋ /

noun

  1. 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)
  2. the game of bowls
  3. cricket the act of delivering the ball to the batsman
  4. modifier of or relating to bowls or bowling

    a bowling team

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bowling1

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

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All-rounder Stokes, with 210 Test wickets, has more scalps than any other active England bowler, though his bowling is likely to be restricted.

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It takes me back to the times I was bowling for a place in the England team.

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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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