Bowling Green Explained

A bowling green is a lawn used for playing the game of bowls.

Bowling Green may also refer to:

Places

United States

Listed alphabetically by state. Note: the largest community in the United States named Bowling Green is in Kentucky.

• Bowling Green, Florida, a city
• Bowling Green, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Bowling Green Township, Fayette County, Illinois
• Bowling Green, Kentucky, a home rule-class city and the county seat of Warren County
  • Bowling Green metropolitan area, Kentucky
• Bowling Green, Maryland, an unincorporated community
• Bowling Green, Missouri, a city and the county seat of in Pike County
• Bowling Green Township, Chariton County, Missouri
• Bowling Green Township, Pettis County, Missouri, an inactive township
• Bowling Green (New York City), a public park in New York City
• Bowling Green, Ohio, a city and the county seat of Wood County; home to Bowling Green State University
• Bowling Green Township, Licking County, Ohio
• Bowling Green Township, Marion County, Ohio
• Bowling Green, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
• Bowling Green, South Carolina, an unincorporated community
• Bowling Green, Virginia, an incorporated town and the seat of Caroline County

United Kingdom

All located within England

• Bowling Green, Callington, a hamlet in the civil parish of Callington
• Bowling Green, Cornwall, a hamlet in the civil parish of Treverbyn
  • Bowling Green, Hampshire, a hamlet north of Pennington, Hampshire Bowling Green, Shropshire, near the hamlet of Peplow in the civil parish of Hodnet
• Bowling Green, Worcestershire, a village in Worcestershire
• RSPB Bowling Green Marsh, a nature reserve in Devon

Elsewhere

• Bowling Green, Amaranth, Ontario, Canada
• Bowling Green, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada
• Bowling Green, Wiesbaden, a park in Germany
• Bowling Green Bay National Park, in Queensland, Australia

Education

Note: the largest so-named school in the United States is Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

• Bowling Green City School District, Ohio, U.S.
• Bowling Green College of Commerce, now part of Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S.
• Bowling Green High School, several American high schools
• Bowling Green School, in Franklinton, Louisiana, U.S.
• Bowling Green State University, located in Bowling Green, Ohio, U.S.

Geography

• Argyll's Bowling Green, a peninsula within Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, Scotland, U.K.
• Bowling Green Col, in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica
• Bowling Green Dolomite, a geologic formation in Missouri, U.S.
• Bowling Green Plateau, in the Cook Mountains in Antarctica

Music

• "Bowling Green" (song), a 1967 single by The Everly Brothers
• Bowling Green (album), a 1956 album of Appalachian folk music recorded by the Kossoy Sisters

Sports

• Bowling Green Ballpark, a stadium in Kentucky, U.S.
• Bowling Green Barons, a defunct minor-league baseball team based in Kentucky, U.S.
• Bowling Green Falcons, the athletic program of Bowling Green State University in Ohio, U.S.
• Bowling Green Ground, a former football ground in Gainsborough, England, U.K.
• Bowling Green Hot Rods, a minor-league baseball team based in Kentucky, U.S.
• Bowling Green Stakes, an American thoroughbred horse race held annually in Saratoga Springs, New York, U.S.
• Southampton Old Bowling Green, the world's oldest surviving bowling green, located in Southampton, England, U.K.

Structures

• Bowling Green Assembly Plant, an automobile factory in Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S.
• Bowling Green Offices Building, in New York City
• Bowling Green Organizational Maintenance Shop No. 10, a historic building in Kentucky, U.S.
• Cape Bowling Green Light, in Queensland, Australia
• Devil's Bowling Green Battery, a 19th-century artillery battery in Gibraltar

Transportation

• Bowling Green station, a subway station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line in New York City
• Bowling Green–Warren County Regional Airport, in Kentucky, U.S.

Other uses

• Bowling Green Bull, an alternate name of Charging Bull, a bronze sculpture in New York City
• Bowling Green Historic District, in Virginia, U.S.
• Bowling Green massacre, a fictional incident referred to by Kellyanne Conway in 2017