bowling

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

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bowling

1. present participle and gerund of bowl

bowling (uncountable)

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.

• → 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

• boules
• bowls
• crown green bowling
• lawn bowls
• ninepins
• skittles
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• blowing

Borrowed from English bowling.

• IPA^(key): /bɔwleŋ/, [ˈb̥ɒwleŋ]

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

1. bowling

• “bowling” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English bowling.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboː.lɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: bow‧ling
• Rhymes: -oːlɪŋ

bowling c (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. bowling; tenpin bowling

bowling c (plural bowlings, no diminutive)

1. bowling alley

   Synonyms: bowlinghal, bowlingbaan, bowlingcentrum

Borrowed from English bowling.

• IPA^(key): /bu.liŋ/, /bo.liŋ/

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bowling m (plural bowlings)

1. bowling

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

2. a place where one can play bowling

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

Unadapted borrowing from English bowling. In the sense "bowling alley", a Pseudo-anglicism.

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bowling m (invariable)

1. ten-pin bowling
2. bowling alley

Unadapted borrowing from English bowling.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔw.liŋk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔwliŋk
• Syllabification: bow‧ling

bowling m inan

1. tenpin bowling

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

Unadapted borrowing from English bowling.

bowling m (invariable)

1. alternative spelling of bólingue

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

Unadapted borrowing from English bowling.

bowling n (uncountable)

1. bowling

Unadapted borrowing from English.

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

bowling m (plural bowlings)

1. bowling alley
2. bowling

• “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

Unadapted borrowing from English bowling. Attested since 1925.

bowling c

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

• kägla (“bowling pin”)

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

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