bowling
pronunciation
How to pronounce bowling in British English:
UK [ˈbəʊlɪŋ]
How to pronounce bowling in American English:
US [ˈboʊlɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over
- (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman
- the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc
Word Origin
- bowling (n.)
- 1530s, originally "playing at bowls," verbal noun from bowl (v.). Bowling alley is from 1550s.
Example
- 1. Call up your bowling pal and hit the lanes .
- 2. Within weeks he was in the nets again , practising , and within months he was playing test cricket against the west indies , against some of the fastest bowling in the world .
- 3. Sarwar sarwari says the bowling alley opens up new possibilities .
- 4. Girls play inside a pyongyang bowling alley .
- 5. He says he 's healthy , keeps active and bowls twice a week through a local senior bowling league .