bowling

bowl (English)

(intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).. (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels. (in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.. The action of bowling a ball.. The ball rolled by players [...]

bowling (English)

(Ireland) Road bowling.. (New England) Candlepin bowling.. (cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.. (gerund) The action of the verb bowl.. (slang) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.. A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling. Any of several similar games [...]