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/bˈoʊlɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Bowling n. The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.

Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins.

Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game.

verb

Bowl v. t. (past & past part. bowled; pres. part. bowling)

To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. "Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven."

To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.

To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.

Bowl v. i.

To play with bowls.

To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.

To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.

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Etymology of 'Bowling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bowling" Quotes from Famous Books

... yell and leaped to his feet, for the second time that night bowling Grace over and darting ...

— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers • Jessie Graham Flower

... am in France with the same strange smells and street cries, and almost the same little boys bowling hoops over the very cobbly cobble stones. I had afternoon tea at a patisserie and ate a great many gateaux for the sake of old times. We had a very choppy crossing, and you would most certainly have been sick had you been on board. It seemed to me that I must be coming on one of those ...

— Carry On • Coningsby Dawson

... girls allow their young men friends to incur expense in their behalf. I am aware that this custom is on the wane in the older cities, that the most refined girls in all parts of the Union dislike it, that it is "bad form" in many circles. In the bowling-club to which I had the pleasure to belong the ladies paid their subscriptions "like a man;" when I drove out on sleigh-parties, the girls insisted on paying their share of the expense. The fact, however, remains that, speaking generally and taking class for class, the ...

— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead

... He was sitting in the same attitude of watchfulness, the revolver resting on his knee. He seemed mistrustful of John's right hand, which was hanging limply at his side. It was from this quarter that he appeared to expect attack. The cab was bowling easily up the broad street, past rows and rows of high houses each looking exactly the same as the last. Occasionally, to the right, through a break in the line of buildings, a glimpse of the river could ...

— The Prince and Betty - (American edition) • P. G. Wodehouse

... out like a shot, bowling down stairs like an avalanche, he rushed into the Knigstrasse ...

— A Journey to the Interior of the Earth • Jules Verne

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