bowling

English

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /bəʊlɪŋ/, 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. Several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
3. (cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
4. (slang) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
5. (gerund) The action of the verb bowl.

Derived terms

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

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

Noun

bowling m. inv.

1. ten-pin bowling
2. bowling alley

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Swedish

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