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BOWLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bowling" is a kind of...):
playing (the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation)
Meronyms (parts of "bowling"):
bowl; roll (the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling))
run-up (the approach run during which an athlete gathers speed)
Domain member category:
bowl (roll (a ball))
Sense 2
Meaning:
(cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bowling" is a kind of...):
throw (the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist))
Domain category:
cricket (a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bowling"):
Chinaman (a ball bowled by a left-handed bowler to a right-handed batsman that spins from off to leg)
bosie; bosie ball; googly; wrong 'un (a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way)
no ball (unlawfully delivered ball in cricket)
Sense 3
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bowling" is a kind of...):
game (a contest with rules to determine a winner)
Meronyms (parts of "bowling"):
frame (one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided)
Domain member category:
pocket ((bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left)
convert (score (a spare))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bowling"):
tenpin bowling; tenpins (bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins)
ninepins; skittles (a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins)
duckpins (a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider)
candlepin bowling; candlepins (a bowling game using slender bowling pins)
bowls; lawn bowling (a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack)
bocce; bocci; boccie (Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb bowl
