Word Finder - bowling

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To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.

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To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).

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To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.

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We were bowled rapidly along the road.

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To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

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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

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Candlepin bowling.

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Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.

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The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.

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A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.

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(gerund) The action of the verb bowl.

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Road bowling.

But though the same statute absolutely prohibited bowling alleys, Henry VIII.

Young boys used to manually set up bowling pins after each frame.

Jack ran from the house to greet them, nearly bowling Brady over.

The Bowling Associations of Victoria and New South Wales were established in 1880, and it was not until 1892 that the Scottish Bowling Association was founded.

In the last is an ancient and picturesque mansion, which formerly belonged to the Bowling or Bolling family.

Of several parks the largest are Lister, Peel, and Bowling parks, each exceeding fifty acres.

He declined an invitation to join Fred and two neighborhood cronies for bowling, but had no desire to stick around the house all day either.

The Forth and Clyde Navigation runs from Bowling on the Clyde, through the north-western part of Glasgow and through Kirkintilloch and Falkirk to Grangemouth on the Forth, a distance of 35 m.

From each end of the house a curved colonnade and a pavement lead westerly to a row of out-buildings which partially enclose a bowling green and spacious lawn with shaded drives and walks, and beautiful gardens (with trees planted by Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Lafayette and others).

Superb work from Academy keeper Hugh Belgrave gave the visitors a 5 wicket haul with a fine reaction stumping from Robinson's bowling.

In Kentucky the Unionist victory was secured almost without a blow, and, even at the end of 1861, the Confederate outposts west of the Alleghenies lay no farther north than the line Columbus - Bowling Green - Cumberland Gap, though southern Missouri was still a contested ground.

Here Fort Donelson on the Cumberland, Fort Henry on the Tennessee and Columbus on the Mississippi guarded the left of the Southern line, Sidney Johnston himself maintaining a precarious advanced position at Bowling Green, with his lieutenants, Zollicoffer and Crittenden, farther east at Mill Springs, and a small force under General Marshall in the mountains of eastern Kentucky.

Jefferson, Jessamine, Warren, Grayson and Caldwell counties have valuable quarries of an excellent light-coloured Oolitic limestone, resembling the Bedford limestone of Indiana, and best known under the name of the finest variety, the " Bowling Green stone " of Warren county; and sandstones good for structural purposes are found in both coal regions, and especially in Rowan county.

Engineering and iron works (as at Bowling and Low Moor) are extensive; and the freestone of the neighbourhood is largely quarried, and in Bradford itself its use is general for building.

A monument to his memory stands on the banks of the Clyde, at Dunglass, near Bowling.

Its public buildings include the court house and the Federal building, both built of Bowling Green oolitic limestone.

His bowling, tho, lacks real pace and, at this stage, has no guile.

In perfect conditions Neston welcomed back Chris Hackett to open the bowling after a 14 week lay off with a ruptured Achilles.

Artificial ice rink, indoor swimming pool, indoor tennis, squash, fitness center, bowling alley.

Situated at Atlantico Commercial Center where there is a variety of shops, bars, restaurants, cinema and ten-pin bowling alley.

Many tenpin bowling alleys are open seven days a week, every day of the year with the exception of Christmas day.

Collingwood is supposed to be a batting all-rounder, Plunkett a bowling all-rounder.

We put on our best bowling performance of the season with Rory McElearney getting some good accurate away swing against aggressive batting.

Leisure facilities included billiards, indoor bowling and ice-skating.

Have the cricket reporters in Australia forgotten Gregory and Macdonald bowling ferocious bouncers in Armstrong's Australian team of 1921?

The winner of the bowling averages was opening bowler Brian Neat, who took 26 wickets for 148 runs.

Past trips have included visits to Bristol and Brecon, swimming, ice-skating, bowling, the theater and Pizza Hut.

Here we go Steve Harmison's going to open the bowling.

Similar in concept to American 10-pin bowling, it is played by rolling a ball at nine wooden pins.

Edwards and Manek struggled to lay a bat on some wayward Oratory bowling but they did bring up a 50 opening partnership.

Despite some tight bowling the MCC won by 6 wickets with 3 overs to spare.

For golfers the Kirton Holme and Boston Golf club have excellent courses, while nearby Boston offers indoor bowling and a cinema.

In response Alex Wakely played a magnificent innings in the face of some hostile bowling.

Vail kept Rushton in check with some accurate left-arm bowling.

With 50 tenpin bowling centers across the UK, you're never far from a great day out.

There is for example a ten pin bowling team which plays on Thursday night.

Well we certainly need to bolster our seam bowling.

Sam is a quality player who will add steel to our batting whist being very useful with his leg spin bowling.

There is little doubt however that the 2006 squad scores over the 1971 team in pace bowling.

Modern attractions include the ten-pin bowling alley, Megazone laser experience and multi-screen cinema.

In her own words, ' we have a new bowling alley, a lively social scene and a UCI cinema ' .

It is an indoor skiing facility that uses real snow it also house a bowling alley, multiplex cinema, climbing walls and restaurants.

I found a bowling alley near the office, where I changed from my hiking jeans and boots into conservative office wear.

The prisoners also made a bowling alley out of concrete, as well as a concrete billiards table, complete with concrete balls.

On Fridays there is a trip to a local bowling alley.

There was no time to try out any spa treatments, inhale at the oxygen bar or head for the 10-pin bowling alley.

Started back work again, just the same old bowling alley.

This complex also boasts a large bowling alley (see next entry) and various fast-food restaurants.

The center also boasts a 6 lane 10 pin bowling alley, featuring state of the art technology.

The National Maritime Museum and a 12 lane bowling alley are always worth a visit.