: any of several games in which balls are rolled on a green or down an alley at an object or group of objects
Examples of bowling in a Sentence
She watches bowling on TV.
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The bowling alley honored those who died by displaying photos of the eight people who lost their lives at Just-In-Time, and bowling pins with the names of the 18 shooting victims behind the front desk.
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Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
The 780,000-square-foot facility offers bowling lanes; basketball, volleyball and pickleball courts; soccer fields; a driving range; gymnastics equipment and more.
—David Waldstein, New York Times, 3 May 2024
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Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
The 780,000-square-foot facility offers bowling lanes; basketball, volleyball and pickleball courts; soccer fields; a driving range; gymnastics equipment and more.
—David Waldstein, New York Times, 3 May 2024
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“Bowling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bowling. Accessed 16 May. 2024.
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bowling
noun
bowl·ing
ˈbō-liŋ 
1
: a game played by rolling balls so as to knock down pins set up at the far end of an alley
2
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