: any of several games in which balls are rolled (as on a green or down an alley) at an object or group of objects
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She watches bowling on TV.
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Watch this women's bowling event on CBS Sports Network, which is available to stream live on Fubo.
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Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
There was the diminutive Puck, whose tiny body could hurdle through foes like a bowling ball, and Sasquatch, the scientist Walter Langkowski who transformed into a Hulk-like mythical Great Beast of the North with but a thought.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 July 2025
Jason Gillespie, one half of a devastating opening bowling partnership for Australia alongside Glenn McGrath, knows a thing or two about cricket pitches.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 9 July 2025
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—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 8 July 2025
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Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
There was the diminutive Puck, whose tiny body could hurdle through foes like a bowling ball, and Sasquatch, the scientist Walter Langkowski who transformed into a Hulk-like mythical Great Beast of the North with but a thought.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 July 2025
Jason Gillespie, one half of a devastating opening bowling partnership for Australia alongside Glenn McGrath, knows a thing or two about cricket pitches.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 9 July 2025
Splitsville Luxury Lanes Free bowling card with any food or beverage purchase.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 8 July 2025
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“Bowling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bowling. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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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
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