26984 words

bowling

3 definitions • 1 example
1
a game played inside, in which you roll a heavy ball down a track to try to knock down a group of pins (= tall, thin wooden objects)
2
(the part of the game) when you bowl the ball in cricket:

Examples:

The England captain opened the bowling (= bowled first).
3
a game in which you stand at one end of a long smooth surface and roll a heavy ball along it to try to knock down a group of ten wooden objects arranged in a triangle at the other end

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