Synonyms:
bowling
Meaning: the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc
Synonyms:
bowling
Meaning: (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman
Synonyms:
bowling
Meaning: a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them
Usage examples
He and I had agreed that we should start the bowling.
"I do like your kind of bowling, mister," Mr. Benyon would constantly remark.
"Now, Bob Sapsworth, you take the bowling one end, and let your captain take the other.
"I do like your kind of bowling, mister," he observed when, as usual, he sent my first ball out of sight.
"I don't think that's a bad little smack to start with," he observed. "I like your kind of bowling, mister.
Since Mr. Benyon professed such affection for the style of bowling which I favoured, I sent him down another sample.
When he sent my fifth ball out of sight I wished that his love for swiping had been less, or my bowling of another kind.
"All in the Downs," and "Tom Bowling," intermingled with pictures of sea-fights, among which the battle of Camperdown held a distinguished place.
As for the Saw-Horse, he made a wonderful record upsetting a fruit cart, overturning several meek looking men, and finally bowling over the new Guardian of the Gate--a fussy little fat woman appointed by General Jinjur.