BOWLING meaning: Rolling ball to knock pins

We found 37 dictionaries that define the word bowling:

General (29 matching dictionaries)

bowling: Merriam-Webster
bowling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
bowling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
bowling: Collins English Dictionary
bowling: Vocabulary.com
Bowling, bowling: Wordnik
bowling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Bowling, bowling: Wiktionary
bowling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
bowling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
bowling: Infoplease Dictionary
Bowling, bowling: Dictionary.com
bowling: Online Etymology Dictionary
bowling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Bowling (Malcolm in the Middle), Bowling (cricket), Bowling (solitaire), Bowling (video game), Bowling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Bowling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
bowling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
bowling: Rhymezone
Bowling, bowling, bowling, bowling (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
bowling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Bowling: American-Britih Dictionary
Bowling: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
Bowling: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
bowling: FreeDictionary.org
bowling: Mnemonic Dictionary
bowling: TheFreeDictionary.com
bowling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

bowling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

bowling: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

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bowling: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Bowling: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

bowling: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
bowling: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

Bowling: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling
▸ noun:  (New England) Candlepin bowling.
▸ noun:  Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
▸ noun:  (cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
▸ noun:  (slang) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
▸ noun:  (gerund) The action of the verb bowl.
▸ noun:  (Ireland) Road bowling.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A village on the Clyde in West Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4473).
▸ noun:  A suburban area in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1731).
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States.

Opposite:

croquet, tennis, golf, billiards

Types:

duckpin, five-pin, ten-pin, bowling alley, bowling ball, bowling shoe, more...

Phrases:

bowling green, bowling alley, bowling ball, bowling alleys, Bowling Alone, more...

Adjectives:

fast, pin, slow, best, arm, poor, underhand, line, professional, indoor, hand

Colors:

black, white, red, blue, green, more...

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