bowling

English

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /bəʊlɪŋ/, X-SAMPA: /b@UlIN/
• Rhymes: -əʊlɪŋ

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Verb

bowling

1. Present participle of bowl.

Noun

bowling (uncountable)

Bowling (sense 1)

1. A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling
2. (New England) candlepin bowling
3. Several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
4. (cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
5. (slang) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
6. (gerund) The action of the verb bowl.

Derived terms

• bowling alley
• bowling ball
• bowling green
• ten-pin bowling
• candlepin bowling

Related terms

• bowl
• bowler

Translations

a game played by rolling a ball down an alley

• Albanian: klub boulingu (sq) m
• Arabic: بولينج (ar) (buuling) m
• Armenian: բոուլինգ (hy) (bouling) 
• Bulgarian: боулинг (bg) (bouling) m 
• Catalan: bitlles (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 保齡球 (cmn), 保龄球 (cmn) (bǎolíngqiú)

• Esperanto: bovlingo (eo)
• Finnish: keilailu (fi)
• French: bowling (fr) m
• German: Bowling (de) n
• Hindi: गेंदबाजी (hi) (gēndabājī)
• Irish: An Bol (ga) m

• Japanese: ボウリング (ja) (bouringu)
• Korean: 볼링 (ko) (bolling)
• Latvian: boulings (lv) m
• Lithuanian: boulingas (lt) m
• Macedonian: куглање (mk) (kúglanje) n
• Polish: kręgle (pl) pl
• Portuguese: boliche (pt) m
• Russian: боулинг (ru) (bóuling) m , игра в кегли (ru) (igrá v kégli) f , кегли (ru) (kégli) f pl , кегельбан (ru) (kegel'bán) m 
• Spanish: bolos (es) m
• Swedish: bowling (sv) c
• Welsh: bowlio (cy) m

several similar games

• Finnish: keilapeli (fi)

(cricket) propelling the ball towards the batsman

a walking style

action of the verb “to bowl”

• Finnish: keilaaminen (fi)

• Macedonian: куглање (mk) (kúglanje) n

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Translations to be checked

• French: bowling m (1)

• Spanish: bolos m pl

See also

• boules
• bowls
• crown green bowling
• lawn bowls
• ninepins
• skittles

Anagrams

• blowing

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from English bowling.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bu.liŋ/

Noun

bowling m (plural bowlings)

1. bowling

   Elle adore jouer au bowling.

2. A place where one can play bowling.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English bowling.

Noun

bowling m (invariable)

1. ten-pin bowling
2. bowling alley

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowing from English bowling.

Noun

bowling c

1. bowling; a game played by rolling a ball down an alley

Declension

Declension of bowling

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	bowling	bowlingen
genitive	bowlings	bowlingens