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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

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *boll?, from Proto-Germanic *bull? (“ball, round vessel, bowl”).

Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”).

Noun

bowl (plural bowls)

1. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
2. As much as is held by a bowl.

3. A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.

4. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
5. The round hollow part of anything.

   Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.

   1. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
   2. A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking

      Let's smoke a bowl!

   3. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
6. A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
7. (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
8. (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)

Synonyms

• (as much as is held by a bowl): bowlful
• (haircut): bowl cut, pudding bowl
• (crater): crater, hollow

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, stud, round object”). Doublet of poll.

Noun

bowl (plural bowls)

1. The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
2. The action of bowling a ball.
3. (in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.

   Synonyms: lawn bowls, lawn bowling

Translations

Verb

bowl (third-person singular simple present bowls, present participle bowling, simple past and past participle bowled)

1. (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
2. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
3. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.

4. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Danish: bowle
• ? Dutch: bowlen

Translations

Anagrams

• Blow, b'low, blow