Bowling, the Glossary
Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling).[1]
Table of Contents
190 relations: Ability (magazine), Akron, Ohio, Alabaster, Albany, New York, American Broadcasting Company, American Machine and Foundry, Anatolia, Ancient Egypt, Automatic scorer, Baltimore, Berlin, Best Bowler ESPY Award, Billy Welu, Bocce, Boston, Boules, Bowlero Corporation, Bowlers Journal International, Bowling, Bowling alley, Bowling Alone, Bowling at the 1988 Summer Olympics, Bowling at the 1991 Pan American Games, Bowling ball, Bowling Green (New York City), Bowling pin, Bowls, Bowls England, Breccia, Brisbane, British Tenpin Bowling Association, Brooklyn, Brunswick Bowling & Billiards, Brunswick Corporation, Business Insider, Buzz Fazio, Canada, Candlepin bowling, Caribbean, Carmen Salvino, Carpet bowls, Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code, Charles I of England, Charlotte, North Carolina, Chicago, Christmas, Cologne, Columbia Industries, Commonwealth realm, Curling, ... Expand index (140 more) »
- Precision sports
- Throwing games
- Throwing sports
Ability (magazine)
Ability is an American bimonthly magazine founded by Chet Cooper in 1990, and launched as the first newsstand magazine focused on issues of health and disability.
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Akron, Ohio
Akron is a city in and the county seat of Summit County, Ohio, United States.
Alabaster
Alabaster is a mineral and a soft rock used for carvings and as a source of plaster powder.
Albany, New York
Albany is the capital and oldest city in the U.S. state of New York, and the seat of and most populous city in Albany County.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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American Machine and Foundry
American Machine and Foundry (known after 1970 as AMF, Inc.) was one of the United States' largest recreational equipment companies, with diversified products as disparate as garden equipment, atomic reactors, and yachts.
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Anatolia
Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
Automatic scorer
An automatic scorer is the computerized scoring system to keep track of scoring in ten-pin bowling.
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Baltimore
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Best Bowler ESPY Award
The Best Bowler ESPY Award has been presented annually since 1995 to the best ten-pin bowler, irrespective of gender, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year of those contesting the sport professionally in the United States.
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Billy Welu
William Joseph Welu (July 3, 1932 – May 16, 1974) was an American professional bowler, executive for the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA), bowling broadcaster, and ambassador for the sport.
Bocce
italics, sometimes anglicized as bocce ball, bocci, or boccie, is a ball sport belonging to the boules family.
Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
Boules
Boules, or jeu de boules, is a collective name for a wide range of games similar to bowls and bocce in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls as closely as possible to a small target ball, called the jack. Bowling and boules are ball games and Throwing sports.
Bowlero Corporation
Bowlero Corporation (formerly known as Bowlmor AMF) is an American bowling center operator.
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Bowlers Journal International
Bowlers Journal International is a monthly magazine in Chicago, Illinois, dedicated to Ten-pin bowling.
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Bowling
Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). Bowling and bowling are ball games, Egyptian inventions, individual sports, Precision sports, team sports, Throwing games and Throwing sports.
Bowling alley
A bowling alley (also known as a bowling center, bowling lounge, bowling arena, or historically bowling club) is a facility where the sport of bowling is played.
Bowling Alone
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is a 2000 nonfiction book by Robert D. Putnam.
Bowling at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Bowling at the 1988 Summer Olympics was an exhibition sport for the first, and so far only time.
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Bowling at the 1991 Pan American Games
This page shows the results of the Bowling Competition for men and women at the 1991 Pan American Games, held from August 2 to August 18, 1991 in Havana, Cuba.
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Bowling ball
A bowling ball is a hard spherical ball used to knock down bowling pins in the sport of bowling.
Bowling Green (New York City)
Bowling Green is a small, historic, public park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City, at the southern end and address origin of Broadway.
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Bowling pin
Bowling pins (historically also known as skittles or kegels) are the target of the bowling ball in various bowling games including tenpins, five-pins, duckpins and candlepins.
Bowls
Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport. Bowling and bowls are ball games, Precision sports and Throwing sports.
Bowls England
Bowls England governs the game of flat green outdoor bowls for men and women in England.
Breccia
Breccia is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.
Brisbane
Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.
British Tenpin Bowling Association
The British Tenpin Bowling Association (BTBA) is the official governing body of ten-pin bowling in the United Kingdom, affiliated to Sport England.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.
Brunswick Bowling & Billiards
Brunswick Bowling & Billiards was the business segment of Brunswick Corporation that historically encompassed three divisions.
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Brunswick Corporation
Brunswick Corporation, formerly known as the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, is an American corporation that has been developing, manufacturing and marketing a wide variety of products since 1845.
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Business Insider
Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.
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Buzz Fazio
Basil "Buzz" Fazio (February 7, 1908 – February 15, 1993) nicknamed the "Buzzer" was a pioneer and early American bowling star during the mid-20th century.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Candlepin bowling
Candlepin bowling is a variation of bowling that is played primarily in the Canadian Maritime provinces and the New England region of the United States.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
Carmen Salvino
Carmen Salvino (born November 23, 1933, in Chicago) is an active professional ten-pin bowler, inventor, author, ambassador, and a founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA).
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Carpet bowls
Carpet bowls is a variant of lawn bowls played indoors.
Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code
Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (Title 11 of the United States Code) permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States.
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Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
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Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County.
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Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.
Cologne
Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.
Columbia Industries
Columbia Industries is a company involved in the manufacture and sale of bowling balls and ten-pin bowling-related accessories.
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Commonwealth realm
A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state within the Commonwealth that has Charles III as its monarch and ceremonial head of state.
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Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. Bowling and Curling are Precision sports and team sports.
Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.
Declaration of Sports
The Declaration of Sports (also known as the Book of Sports) was a declaration of James I of England issued just for Lancashire in 1617, nationally in 1618, and reissued by Charles I in 1633.
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Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
Dick Hoover
Richard Lee Hoover (December 15, 1929 – September 17, 2009) was an American professional bowler.
Dick Weber
Richard Anthony Weber (December 23, 1929 – February 13, 2005) was an American professional ten-pin bowler and founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA).
Disability classification in lawn bowls
Bowls classification is the classification system for lawn bowls where players with a disability are classified into different categories based on their disability type.
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Don Carter (bowler)
Donald James Carter (July 29, 1926 – January 5, 2012) was a right-handed American professional bowler.
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Duckpin bowling
Duckpin bowling is a variation of the sport of bowling.
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Dutch East India Company
The United East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, abbreviated as VOC), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world.
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Dutch Golden Age painting
Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence.
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Earl Anthony
Earl Roderick Anthony (April 27, 1938 – August 14, 2001) was an American professional bowler who amassed records of 43 titles and six Player of the Year awards on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour.
Ebonite International
Ebonite International was a parent company that oversaw the manufacture of bowling balls and bowling equipment.
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Eddie Elias
Edward G. "Eddie" Elias (December 12, 1928 – November 15, 1998) was best known as the founder of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA).
Edward III of England
Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377.
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Eisenhower Executive Office Building
The Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), formerly known as the Old Executive Office Building (OEOB), and originally known as the State, War, and Navy Building (SWAN Building), is a United States government building that is now part of the White House compound in the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Esquire (magazine)
Esquire is an American men's magazine.
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Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is an American tire company founded by Harvey S. Firestone (18681938) in 1900 initially to supply solid rubber side-wire tires for fire apparatus, and later, pneumatic tires for wagons, buggies, and other forms of wheeled transportation common in the era.
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Five-pin bowling
Five-pin bowling is a bowling variant which is played in Canada, where many bowling alleys offer it, either alone or in combination with ten-pin bowling.
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Floretta McCutcheon
Floretta "Doty" McCutcheon (July 22, 1888 – February 2, 1967) was a professional bowler and activist.
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Frames per stop
Frames per stop is a term used in the bowling industry by technicians, manufacturers, and others involved in this recreation industry.
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Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake (1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580.
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.
General Services Administration
The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies.
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George Branham III
George Branham III (born November 21, 1962) is a professional ten-pin bowler and former member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA).
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Glasgow
Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.
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Hamburg
Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City.
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.
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Havana
Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson (1565 – disappeared 23 June 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the Northeastern United States.
Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.
Herodotus
Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
Holler House
Holler House is a tavern that houses the oldest sanctioned tenpin bowling alley in the United States.
Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay, sometimes called Hudson's Bay (usually historically), is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of.
International Bowling Federation
International Bowling Federation (IBF), formerly known as the Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ) from 1952 to April 2014 and as World Bowling (WB) from April 2014 to November 2020, is the world governing body of nine-pin and ten-pin bowling.
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International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; Comité international olympique, CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Ipswich
Ipswich is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England.
Irish road bowling
Road bowling (Ból an bhóthair; also called bullets) is an Irish sport in which competitors attempt to take the fewest throws to propel a metal ball along a predetermined course of country roads.
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James VI and I
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.
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Jan Steen
Jan Havickszoon Steen (– buried 3 February 1679) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, one of the leading genre painters of the 17th century.
Japan Professional Bowling Association
The (JPBA) is the major sanctioning body for the sport of professional ten-pin bowling in Japan.
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Jason Belmonte
Jason Belmonte (born 29 July 1983) is an Australian professional ten-pin bowler.
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Kelly Kulick
Kelly Kulick (born March 16, 1977) is an American professional bowler, bowling coach and sportscaster.
Kyle Troup
Kyle Troup (born June 11, 1991) is an American professional ten-pin bowler from Taylorsville, North Carolina, now residing in Mt. Washington, Kentucky.
Lathe
A lathe is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, threading and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis. Bowling and lathe are Egyptian inventions.
LeRoy Neiman
LeRoy Neiman (born LeRoy Leslie Runquist, June 8, 1921 – June 20, 2012) was an American artist known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings and screenprints of athletes, musicians, and sporting events.
Lignum vitae
Lignum vitae is a wood, also called guayacan or guaiacum, and in parts of Europe known as Pockholz or pokhout, from trees of the genus Guaiacum.
Lincoln Journal Star
The Lincoln Journal Star is an American daily newspaper that serves Lincoln, Nebraska, the state capital and home of the University of Nebraska.
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Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County.
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Liz Johnson (bowler)
Elizabeth Ann Johnson (born May 2, 1974) is an American professional bowler who currently competes on the Professional Women's Bowling Association (PWBA) Tour, and in some events on the PBA Tour and PBA50 Tour.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States.
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Lydians
The Lydians (Greek: Λυδοί; known as Sparda to the Achaemenids, Old Persian cuneiform 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭) were an Anatolian people living in Lydia, a region in western Anatolia, who spoke the distinctive Lydian language, an Indo-European language of the Anatolian group.
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.
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Maple
Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.
Marion Ladewig
Marion Ladewig (née Van Oosten; October 30, 1914 – April 16, 2010) was an American ten-pin bowler.
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther (10 November 1483– 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and Augustinian friar.
McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station is an American Antarctic research station on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand–claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica.
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Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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Mexico City
Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Mimeograph
A mimeograph machine (often abbreviated to mimeo, sometimes called a stencil duplicator or stencil machine) was a low-cost duplicating machine that worked by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper.
Naqada
Naqada (Egyptian Arabic: نقادة; Coptic language: ⲛⲉⲕⲁⲧⲏⲣⲓⲟⲛ; Ancient Greek: Παμπανις, Ancient Egyptian: Nbyt), is a town on the west bank of the Nile in Qena Governorate, Egypt, situated ca.
Naqada III
Naqada III is the last phase of the Naqada culture of ancient Egyptian prehistory, dating from approximately 3200 to 3000 BC.
National Bowling League
The National Bowling League (NBL) is a defunct professional bowling league that existed from February 24, 1960 to July 9, 1962.
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National Bowling Stadium
The National Bowling Stadium is a ten-pin bowling stadium in Reno, Nevada.
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New Amsterdam
New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
New Zealand Indoor Bowls
New Zealand Indoor Bowls (NZIB) is a form of Indoor bowls that is a highly competitive strategic sport.
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Nine-pin bowling
Nine-pin bowling (also known as ninepin bowling, nine-pin, kegel, or kegeln) is a bowling game played primarily in Europe. Bowling and nine-pin bowling are ball games.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
Open bowling
Open bowling is a term used by bowlers and bowling establishments to describe non-sanctioned play.
Palace of Whitehall
The Palace of Whitehall – also spelled White Hall – at Westminster was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its structures, with the notable exception of Inigo Jones's Banqueting House of 1622, were destroyed by fire.
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Pétanque
Pétanque (petanca; petanca) is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports (along with raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, lawn bowls, crown green bowling). Bowling and Pétanque are ball games, Precision sports, team sports and Throwing sports.
PBA Tournament of Champions
The PBA Tournament of Champions is one of the five major PBA (Professional Bowlers Association) bowling events.
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PBA World Championship
The PBA World Championship is one of five major PBA (Professional Bowlers Association) bowling events.
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Peoria, Illinois
Peoria is a city in and county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, United States.
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Pinsetter
In bowling, a pinsetter or pinspotter is an automated mechanical device that sets bowling pins back in their original positions, returns bowling balls to the front of the alley, and clears fallen pins on the pin deck.
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Plastic
Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic materials that use polymers as a main ingredient.
Plymouth Hoe
Plymouth Hoe, referred to locally as the Hoe, is a large south-facing open public space in the English coastal city of Plymouth.
Porphyry (geology)
Porphyry is any of various granites or igneous rocks with coarse-grained crystals such as feldspar or quartz dispersed in a fine-grained silicate-rich, generally aphanitic matrix or groundmass.
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Professional Bowlers Association
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) is the major sanctioning body for the sport of professional ten-pin bowling in the United States.
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Professional Bowlers Tour
The Professional Bowlers Tour, also known as Pro Bowlers Tour, is a broadcast of the Professional Bowlers Association that aired on ABC from 1962 to 1997.
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Professional Women's Bowling Association
The Professional Women's Bowling Association (PWBA) organizes and oversees a series of annual tournaments for the top competitive women ten-pin bowlers.
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.
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QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup
The QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup, previously known as the International Masters and AMF Bowling World Cup, is an annual Ten-pin bowling championship sponsored by QubicaAMF Worldwide, and the largest in bowling in terms of number of participating nations.
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Quebec
QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
Queensland
Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.
Reno, Nevada
Reno is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada–California border.
Revolutions of 1848
The revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the springtime of the peoples or the springtime of nations, were a series of revolutions throughout Europe over the course of more than one year, from 1848 to 1849.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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Rip Van Winkle
"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Roseland Cottage
Roseland Cottage, also known as Henry C. Bowen House or as Bowen Cottage, is a historic house located on Route 169 in Woodstock, Connecticut, United States.
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Ryder Cup
The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between European and United States teams.
Seabee
United States Naval Construction Battalions, better known as the Navy Seabees, form the U.S. Naval Construction Forces (NCF).
Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.
Situation Room
The Situation Room is an intelligence management complex on the ground floor of the West Wing of the White House.
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Skittles (sport)
Skittles is a historical lawn game and target sport of European origin, from which the modern sport of nine-pin bowling is descended.
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Southampton
Southampton is a port city in Hampshire, England.
Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, lit) was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain.
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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated (SI) is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954.
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St. Louis
St.
Steve Nagy (bowler)
Steve Nagy born on August 10, 1913 and died in November 11, 1966 was an American professional bowler from Cleveland, Ohio.
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Strike (bowling)
In bowling, a strike means that all of the pins have been knocked down on the first ball roll of a frame.
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Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.
Ten-pin bowling
Ten-pin bowling is a type of bowling in which a bowler rolls a bowling ball down a wood or synthetic lane toward ten pins positioned evenly in four rows in an equilateral triangle.
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Tetraplegia
Tetraplegia, also known as quadriplegia, is defined as the dysfunction or loss of motor and/or sensory function in the cervical area of the spinal cord.
The Antarctic Sun
The Antarctic Sun is an online newspaper with "News about the USAP, the Ice, and the People." It is funded by the National Science Foundation (contract no. NSFDACS1219442) by its prime civilian contractor, Leidos Antarctic Support Contract.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine, currently published six times a year.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Tokyo
Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.
Trilithon
A trilithon or trilith is a structure consisting of two large vertical stones (posts) supporting a third stone set horizontally across the top (lintel).
U.S. Open (bowling)
The U.S. Open is one of the five major tournaments in the Professional Bowlers Association.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
United States Bowling Congress
The United States Bowling Congress (USBC) is a sports membership organization dedicated to ten-pin bowling in the United States.
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USBC Masters
The USBC Masters is a championship ten-pin bowling event conducted by the United States Bowling Congress.
W. G. Grace
William Gilbert Grace (18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915) was an English amateur cricketer who was important in the development of the sport and is widely considered one of its greatest players.
Washington Irving
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
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Weber Cup
The Weber Cup, named after professional ten-pin bowler Dick Weber, is a men's ten-pin bowling competition between Team Europe and Team USA, wherein teams compete over three days in a series of single, double and team (baker) matches.
West Wing
The West Wing of the White House houses the offices of the president of the United States.
White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.
Women's bowls in Australia
The first women's bowls match played in Australia took place in Stawell, Victoria, in October 1881.
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Women's International Bowling Congress
The Women's International Bowling Congress (WIBC) was an organization for women bowlers who played ten-pin bowling and was formed in 1916 as a counterpart to the American Bowling Congress (ABC).
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Woodstock, Connecticut
Woodstock is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States.
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Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester is the 2nd most populous city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the 114th most populous city in the United States.
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World Tenpin Masters
The World Tenpin Masters (founded in 1998) is an annual Ten-pin bowling tournament.
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1982 Commonwealth Games
The 1982 Commonwealth Games was held in Brisbane, Australia, from 30 September to 9 October 1982.
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900 series (bowling)
A 900 series refers to three consecutive perfect games bowled by an individual bowler.
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See also
Precision sports
- Air hockey
- Archery
- Axe throwing
- Bowling
- Bowls
- Carrom
- Cherokee marbles
- Conger cuddling
- Croquet
- Cue sports
- Curling
- Darts
- Dueball
- Feather bowling
- Finnish skittles
- Footgolf
- Golf
- Gorodki
- Hickory golf
- Ice stock sport
- Knife throwing
- Kolf
- Mölkky
- Marksmanship
- Pétanque
- Penny in the hole
- Pitch and putt
- Roque
- Shooting sports
- Shuffleboard
- Table football
- Table shuffleboard
- Tejo (sport)
- Toad in the hole (game)
- Trugo
- Washer pitching
- Woodball
- World Axe Throwing League
- World Knife Throwing League
Throwing games
- Aunt Sally
- Biseokchigi
- Bowling
- Bunnock
- Cards in the hat
- Cherokee marbles
- Cornhole
- Darts
- Fetch (game)
- Finnish skittles
- Flying disc games
- Flying disc sports
- Fowling (sport)
- Gorodki
- Horseshoes (game)
- Kubb
- Ladder toss
- Lawn darts
- Lawn game
- Mölkky
- Piljke
- Pitching pennies
- Quoits
- Ring toss
- Svaika
- Tejo (sport)
- Washer pitching
Throwing sports
- Bocce volo
- Boccia
- Borella (game)
- Boules
- Bowling
- Bowls
- Caber toss
- Chunkey
- Club throw
- Darts
- Disc golf
- Discus throw
- Dwarf-tossing
- Fox tossing
- Haggis hurling
- Hammer throw
- Javelin throw
- Keg-tossing
- Mobile phone throwing
- Pétanque
- Sheaf toss
- Shot put
- Snow snake
- Softball throw
- Steinstossen
- Stone put
- Taistelupetankki
- Throwing sports
- Throws pentathlon
- Weight throw
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling
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