Definitions for bowling

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bowling bowl·ing

Spelling: [boh-ling]

IPA: /ˈboʊ lɪŋ/

Bowling is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in bowling (bgilnow).

Definitions for bowling

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:
4. a rather deep, round dish or basin, used chiefly for holding liquids, food, etc.
5. the contents of a bowl:
6. a rounded, cuplike, hollow part:
7. a large drinking cup.
8. festive drinking; conviviality.
9. any bowl-shaped depression or formation.
10. an edifice with tiers of seats forming sides like those of a bowl, having the arena at the bottom; stadium.
11. Also called bowl game. a football game played after the regular season by teams selected by the sponsors of the game, usually as representing the best from a region of the country:
12. Typography. a curved or semicircular line of a character, as of a, d, b, etc.
13. one of the balls, having little or no bias, used in playing ninepins or tenpins.
14. one of the biased or weighted balls used in lawn bowling.
15. bowls, (used with a singular verb) lawn bowling.
16. a delivery of the ball in bowling or lawn bowling.
17. (formerly) a rotating cylindrical part in a machine, as one to reduce friction.

Verb phrases

1. bowl over, to surprise greatly:

verb (used with object)

1. to give (a floor) a gentle inclination on all sides toward some area, as a stage or platform.
2. to roll or trundle, as a ball or hoop.
3. to attain by bowling:
4. to knock or strike, as by the ball in bowling (usually followed by over or down).
5. to carry or convey, as in a wheeled vehicle.
6. Cricket. to eliminate (a batsman) by bowling (usually followed by out):

verb (used without object)

1. to play at bowling or bowls; participate in or have a game or games of bowling.
2. to roll a bowl or ball.
3. to move along smoothly and rapidly.
4. Cricket. to deliver the ball to be played by the batsman.

Origin of bowling

First recorded in 1525-35; bowl² + -ing¹

Examples for bowling

To-morrow we start for bowling Green, our division in the lead.

Then there was the bowling party Billy Bob Thornton threw for the cast three or four weeks later.

The 18-inch air ducts that feed the pipe rooms are each over 50 feet in length, large enough to fit a bowling ball.

"bowling him over with those long sentences was what fetched me," cried Evie.

According to the lawsuit, bowling says his appearance on the show ended in “relentless embarrassment and harassment.”

In the eyes of the NRA, Rambo is as grave a threat to gun rights as The Fonz—or the director of bowling for Columbine.

Dulwich were disposed of for 67, largely owing to the bowling of Pearson.

I don't know where I'll put you, unless it's the bowling alley, but I guess that's your size.

I found the plant quite frequently, in the woods about bowling Green.

Paul employed his wife, a deacon in their bowling Green presbyterian church, for damage control.