bowling

Noun
  1. A game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them (synset 100462843)
    associated with:
    • pocket - (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left
    • convert - score (a spare)
    is a type of: game - a contest with rules to determine a winner
    subtypes:
    • tenpin bowling, tenpins - bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins
    • ninepins, skittles - a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins
    • duckpins - a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider
    • candlepin bowling, candlepins - a bowling game using slender bowling pins
    • bowls, lawn bowling - a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
    • bocce, bocci, boccie - Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court
    has: frame - one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided
  2. (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman (synset 100105796)
    referred to in: cricket - a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
    is a type of: throw - the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)
    subtypes:
    • chinaman - a ball bowled by a left-handed bowler to a right-handed batsman that spins from off to leg
    • bosie, bosie ball, googly, wrong 'un - a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way
    • no ball - unlawfully delivered ball in cricket
  3. The playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc (synset 100042478)
    associated with: bowl - roll (a ball)
    is a type of: playing - the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation
    has:
    • bowl, roll - the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
    • run-up - the approach run during which an athlete gathers speed

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