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
Used in a Sentence
bowling
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bowling.
Editorial note
A whiffle ball's speed with respect to the bowling ball doesn't change in the bowling ball's rest frame.
Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
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
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of bowling gathered in one view.
Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
A surname.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for bowling.
noun
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
noun
Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
noun
A surname.
noun
A village on the Clyde in West Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4473).
Example sentences
A whiffle ball's speed with respect to the bowling ball doesn't change in the bowling ball's rest frame.
The canonical example is to try to measure the position of pins in a bowling alley using a bowling ball.
You really think a brilliant physics PhD can create a network that gets 1,000,000$/year in bowling ball sales?
Go get a coffee and come back, or grab the team and go play a round of bowling.
In Bowling Green, Ohio for example city parking lots have a couple electric car chargers that are free.
With bowling, I can't tell you if i'm going to roll a strike or a split, but i'm sure i won't hit you with a bowling ball.
It would be nice if someone could do a study akin to Bowling Alone, to study shortsightedness instead of social isolation.
It's currently around 20/40 right now, so I wear my glasses driving at night, bowling, and movie watching.
Résumé/CV: Email for it Email: kasmith@bgsu.edu About: Senior, with 1 year to go at Bowling Green State University.
We work hard at what we do, but break regularly for happy hours, bowling nights, and inspiring guest speakers.
This network stretched up Manhattan’s east and west sides, from Bowling Green and Wall Street, all the way north to Manhattanville and East Harlem.
I think the real result here is that people who suck at bowling are less consistent, more of the time.
Quote examples
Check out Jakki Mohr's book "Marketing of High-technology Products and Innovations", she expands on Moore's book and gives several strategies for expanding your market (some of them are Moore's, like the Bowling Alley/Bowling Pin).
That's why it makes sense for restaurants to follow Geoffrey Moore's advice of using the "bowling alley strategy" from Crossing the Chasm.
Two great books on this topic you may have already read - Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone" as well as Supercapitalism by Robert Reich.
And thus "birth of a child" and "going bowling with friends" don't seem all that different.
Proper noun examples
Bowling's secret sauce is that he lets his algorithm re-visit earlier optimizations.
I'm immediately thinking of Bowling's poker algorithm.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use bowling in a sentence?
A whiffle ball's speed with respect to the bowling ball doesn't change in the bowling ball's rest frame.
What does bowling mean?
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
What part of speech is bowling?
bowling is commonly used as noun.