: 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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David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2024
On the way to the L.A. airport, on Century Boulevard, there was a sign for nude bowling.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
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“Bowling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bowling. Accessed 4 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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