bowling

See also: Bowling

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊlɪŋ/, [ˈbɒʊɫɪŋ]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊlɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -əʊlɪŋ

• Audio (Canada):

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• Audio (Australia):

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Verb

bowling

1. present participle and gerund of bowl

Noun

bowling (uncountable)

Bowling (sense 1)

1. A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; tenpin bowling/fivepin bowling
2. (New England) Candlepin bowling.
3. Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
4. (cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
5. (slang) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
6. (gerund) The action of the verb bowl.
7. (Ireland) Road bowling.

Derived terms

• bowling alley
• Bowling Alley Point
• bowling alone thesis
• bowling average
• bowling bag
• bowling ball
• bowling club
• bowling crease
• bowling figures
• bowling-green
• bowling green, Bowling Green
• bowling shirt
• bowling shoe
• bowlliards
• buffet bowling
• cafeteria bowling
• candlepin bowling
• carpet bowling
• collar the bowling
• cosmic bowling
• declaration bowling
• fast bowling
• fivepin bowling
• lawn bowling
• open bowling
• pace bowling
• sharp as a bowling ball
• sport bowling
• ten-pin bowling
• turkey bowling

Related terms

• bowl
• bowler
• bowls
• lawn bowls

Descendants

• → Danish: bowling
• → Dutch: bowling
• → French: bowling
• → German: Bowling
• → Indonesian: boling
• → Italian: bowling
• → Latin: bowling
• → Malay: boling
• → Norwegian: bowling
• → Portuguese: bólingue
• → Swedish: bowling
• → Tagalog: boling
• → Vietnamese: bowling

Translations

a game played by rolling a ball down an alley

Albanian: klub boulingu m Arabic: بُولِنْغ m (būlinḡ), بُولِينْغ m (būlīnḡ), بُولِينْج m (būling) Armenian: բոուլինգ (hy) (bouling) Belarusian: бо́ўлінг m (bówlinh) Bulgarian: бо́улинг m (bóuling) Catalan: bitlles americanes f pl, bowling (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 保齡球 / 保龄球 (zh) (bǎolíngqiú) Esperanto: bovlingo Estonian: keegel Finnish: keilailu (fi) French: bowling (fr) m Georgian: ბოულინგი (boulingi) German: Bowling (de) n Greek: μπόουλινγκ (el) n (bóoulingk) Hebrew: באולינג (he) (ba'uling), כַּדֹּרֶת (he) f (kadóret) Hindi: गेंदबाजी ? (gendbājī) Irish: (please verify) An Bol m, babhláil f Italian: bowling (it) m, stendibirilli m (uncommon), abbattibirilli m (uncommon) Japanese: ボウリング (ja) (bouringu) Kazakh: боулинг (bowlıyng) Korean: 볼링 (ko) (bolling), 보링 (ko) (boring) (North Korea) Kyrgyz: боулинг (bouling) Lao: ໂບລິ້ງ (bō ling) Latvian: boulings m Lithuanian: boulingas m Macedonian: ку́глање n (kúglanje) Malay: boling Persian: بولینگ (fa) (bowling) Plautdietsch: Kjäajel m Polish: kręgle (pl) pl, bowling (pl) m Portuguese: boliche (pt) m (Brazil), bólingue (pt) m (Portugal) Romanian: bowling (ro), popice Russian: бо́улинг (ru) m (bóuling), игра́ в ке́гли f (igrá v kégli), ке́гли (ru) f pl (kégli), кегельба́н (ru) m (kegelʹbán) Spanish: bolos (es) m pl, boliche (es) m, bowling m (Americas) Swedish: bowling (sv) c Tamil: பந்து வீச்சு (pantu vīccu) Turkish: bovling (tr) Ukrainian: бо́улінг m (bóulinh), гра́ в ке́глі f (hrá v kéhli), ке́глі f pl (kéhli), кегельба́н m (kehelʹbán) Welsh: bowlio (cy) m Yiddish: באָוולינג (bovling)

several similar games

Catalan: bitlles (ca) f pl, joc de bitlles m Finnish: keilapeli German: Kegeln (de) n

(cricket) propelling the ball towards the batsman

Marathi: गोलंदाजी f (golandājī) Telugu: బౌలింగు (bauliṅgu) Urdu: گیند بازی (gend-bāzī)

a walking style

action of the verb “to bowl”

Finnish: keilaaminen (fi) Macedonian: ку́глање n (kúglanje)

See also

• boules
• bowls
• crown green bowling
• lawn bowls
• ninepins
• skittles
• 🎳 (emoji)

Anagrams

• blowing

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bowling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔwleŋ/, [ˈb̥ɒwleŋ]

Noun

bowling c (singular definite bowlingen, not used in plural form)

1. bowling

Declension

Declension of bowling

common gender	singular
indefinite	definite
nominative	bowling	bowlingen
genitive	bowlings	bowlingens

Further reading

• “bowling” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English bowling. The sense "bowling alley" is a pseudo-anglicism derived from an ellipsis of English bowling alley, borrowed from French bowling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboː.lɪŋ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bow‧ling
• Rhymes: -oːlɪŋ

Noun

bowling c (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. bowling; tenpin bowling

Noun

bowling c (plural bowlings, no diminutive)

1. bowling alley

   Synonyms: bowlinghal, bowlingbaan, bowlingcentrum

Derived terms

• bowlingbaan
• bowlingbal
• bowlingcentrum
• bowlinghal
• bowlingschoen

Related terms

• bowlen
• bowler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English bowling. The sense "bowling alley" is a pseudo-anglicism, derived from an ellipsis of English bowling alley.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.liŋ/, /bo.liŋ/

• Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

bowling m (plural bowlings)

1. bowling

   Elle adore jouer au bowling. ― She loves to play bowling.

2. bowling alley

Further reading

• “bowling”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bowling. The sense "bowling alley" is a pseudo-anglicism derived from an ellipsis of English bowling alley, borrowed from French bowling.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

bowling m (invariable)

1. ten-pin bowling

   Synonyms: (uncommon) stendibirilli, (uncommon) abbattibirilli

2. bowling alley

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bowling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔw.liŋk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔwliŋk
• Syllabification: bow‧ling

Noun

bowling m inan

1. tenpin bowling

Declension

Declension of bowling

	singular
nominative	bowling
genitive	bowlingu
dative	bowlingowi
accusative	bowling
instrumental	bowlingiem
locative	bowlingu
vocative	bowlingu

Derived terms

adjective

• bowlingowy

Further reading

• “bowling”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “bowling”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bowling.

Noun

bowling m (invariable)

1. alternative spelling of bólingue

Further reading

• “bowling”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English bowling.

Noun

bowling n (uncountable)

1. bowling

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bowling	bowlingul
genitive-dative	bowling	bowlingului
vocative	bowlingule

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bowling. The sense "bowling alley" is a pseudo-anglicism derived from an ellipsis of English bowling alley, borrowed from French bowling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboulin/ [ˈbou̯.lĩn]
• Rhymes: -oulin

Noun

bowling m (plural bowlings)

1. bowling alley
2. bowling

Further reading

• “bowling”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bowling. Attested since 1925.

Noun

bowling c

1. bowling; a game played by rolling a ball down an alley

Declension

Declension of bowling

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bowling	bowlings
definite	bowlingen	bowlingens
plural	indefinite	—	—
definite	—	—

Related terms

• kägla (“bowling pin”)

See also

• bowlinghall (“bowling alley”)
• bowlingklot (“bowling ball”)
• bowlingsko (“bowling shoe”)

References

• “bowling”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “bowling”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)