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bowling

/boh-ling/US // ˈboʊ lɪŋ //UK // (ˈbəʊlɪŋ) //

保龄球,打保龄球,保龄球场,保龄球运动

Related Words

skittles小飞象,小飞侠,小飞鼠,小飞象牙膏duckpins鸭舌帽,鸭嘴兽,鸭嘴帽,鸭嘴式ninepins九针,九品芝麻官,九头鸟,九指山candlepins蜡烛针,烛针,烛台,烛光针bowls碗,碗里的东西,碗里的食物,碗里lawn bowling草坪保龄球,草地保龄球,草坪上的保龄球,草坪保龄球场kegling凯格林,凯格灵,凯格琳,凯歌

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several games in which players standing at one end of an alley or green roll balls at standing objects or toward a mark at the other end, especially a game in which a heavy ball is rolled from one end of a wooden alley at wooden pins set up at the opposite end.Compare boccie, candlepins, duckpins, lawn bowling, ninepins, tenpins.
    • : the game of bowls; lawn bowling.
    • : an act or instance of playing or participating in any such game: Bowling is a pleasant way to exercise.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nountenpins
Synonyms
candlepins蜡烛针,烛针,烛台,烛光针duckpins鸭舌帽,鸭嘴兽,鸭嘴帽,鸭嘴式ninepins九针,九品芝麻官,九头鸟,九指山skittles小飞象,小飞侠,小飞鼠,小飞象牙膏kegling凯格林,凯格灵,凯格琳,凯歌lawn bowling草坪保龄球,草地保龄球,草坪上的保龄球,草坪保龄球场

Examples

  • When it vanishes again, just in time for water-bottle bowling, my 11-year-old substitutes a lacrosse ball — and rolls a spare.

  • They belong to civic organizations such as churches, Elks clubs and bowling leagues.

  • To pass the time, Grisham and his friends had bowling tournaments in a two-lane alley and played a lot of poker, he said.

  • In spite of the challenges, new bowling alleys have opened during the pandemic, and with the vaccine already being administered, a glimmer of hope is on the horizon.

  • The league offers kickball, volleyball, dodgeball, bowling, and more.

  • Brabner talked about the “MTV people” coming to Cleveland to get pictures of Pekar emptying the garbage and going bowling.

  • Some twits have gone on Twitter to suggest Spencer was being reckless when he went out bowling.

  • The 18-inch air ducts that feed the pipe rooms are each over 50 feet in length, large enough to fit a bowling ball.

  • In the eyes of the NRA, Rambo is as grave a threat to gun rights as The Fonz—or the director of Bowling for Columbine.

  • Paul employed his wife, a deacon in their Bowling Green presbyterian church, for damage control.

  • A cricket-match was in progress, but the bowling and batting were extremely wild, thanks to The Warren strong beer.

  • Even then the Prime Minister was with difficulty prevented from bowling during forbidden hours.

  • He made some remark about the beauty of the night, and a minute later he was bowling back in a hansom to Merehaven House.

  • The Wellington came bowling along under close-reefed topsails.

  • I snatched up a war-club, dropped by a slain savage, and hurled it into the thick of them, bowling over two.

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