different between bowling vs bolling

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??l??/, [?b?????]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bo?li?/
• Rhymes: -??l??

Verb

bowling

1. present participle of bowl

Noun

bowling (uncountable)

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/five-pin bowling
2. (New England) Candlepin bowling.
3. Any of 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.
7. (Ireland) Road bowling.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• boules
• bowls
• crown green bowling
• lawn bowls
• ninepins
• skittles
• ???? (emoji)

Anagrams

• blowing

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bowling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?wle?/, [?b??wle?]

Noun

bowling c (singular definite bowlingen, not used in plural form)

1. bowling

Inflection

Further reading

• “bowling” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English bowling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.li?/

Noun

bowling m (plural bowlings)

1. bowling

2. A place where one can play bowling.

Further reading

• “bowling” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English bowling.

Noun

bowling m (invariable)

1. ten-pin bowling
2. bowling alley

Polish

Etymology

From English bowling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?w.l?ink/

Noun

bowling m inan

1. tenpin bowling

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) bowlingowy

Further reading

• bowling in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• bowling in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From English bowling.

Noun

bowling n (uncountable)

1. bowling

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?boulin/, [?bou?.l?n]

• IPA^(key): /?bolin/, [?bo.l?n]

Noun

bowling m (plural bowlings)

1. bowling alley

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bowling.

Noun

bowling c

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

Declension

English

Etymology

Compare bole (“stem of a tree”), and poll (transitive verb).

Noun

bolling (plural bollings)

1. A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.