Bowling (disambiguation) explained

Bowling is a competitive and recreational sport. Variants include:

• Ten-pin bowling, the most popular type of bowling today
• Nine-pin bowling
• Five-pin bowling, a bowling variant which is played only in Canada
• Duckpin bowling
• Candlepin bowling
• Trick bowling
• Bowling pin
• Bowling ball
  • Bowling pin shooting
• Turkey bowling
• Strike (bowling)
• Bowling at the Summer Olympics
• Bowling form
• World Bowling

Bowling may also refer to:

Sports

• Bowling (cricket), the act of propelling the ball towards the wicket in the sport of cricket
  • Bowling analysis
  • Bowling average
  • Fast bowling
  • Seam bowling
  • Spin bowling
  • Underarm bowling
• Bowl game, a North American football match
• Bowling in India
• Feather bowling
• Irish road bowling, a traditional Irish game, played along country roads, involving throwing a metal ball, the winner being the participant whose ball traverses the course in the fewest throws
• Lawn Bowls: a Commonwealth Games and Paralympic Games sport; see Lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games

Places

• Bowling, Tennessee
• Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, a village in Scotland
• Bowling, Yorkshire, a residential district of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England which is split into:
  • East Bowling, part of the electoral ward of Bowling and Barkerend
  • West Bowling, part of the electoral ward of Little Horton

Arts, entertainment, and media

Television

• "Bowling" (Malcolm in the Middle), Emmy Award-winning 35th episode of the TV series
• "Bowling" (The Suite Life of Zack and Cody episode), a 2006 episode from the TV series

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Bowling (solitaire)
• Bowling (video game), a 1978 video game for the Atari 2600
• "The Bowling Song", a song by Raffi

Other uses

• Bowling (surname), a surname
• Bowling Green State University
  • Bowling Green–Toledo football rivalry
• Bowling Green–South Ferry shuttle

See also

• Bowl (disambiguation)
• Bowler (disambiguation)
• Bowling green (disambiguation)