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• ninepins — noun a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins • Syn: ↑skittles • Hypernyms: ↑bowling …   Useful english dictionary

• bowling — /boh ling/, n. 1. any of several games in which players standing at one end of an alley or green roll balls at standing objects or toward a mark at the other end, esp. a game in which a heavy ball is rolled from one end of a wooden alley at… …   Universalium

• ninepin — n. 1 (in pl.; usu. treated as sing.) a game in which nine pins are set up at the end of an alley and bowled at in an attempt to knock them down. 2 a pin used in this game. * * * noun a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in… …   Useful english dictionary

• Skittles (sport) — Skittles is an old European , a variety of bowling, from which Ten pin bowling, Duckpin bowling, and Candlepin bowling in the United States, and Five pin bowling in Canada are descended. In the United Kingdom the game remains a very popular pub… …   Wikipedia

• Amusement — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Amusement >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 amusement amusement entertainment Sgm: N 1 diversion diversion divertissement Sgm: N 1 reaction reaction solace Sgm: N 1 pastime pastime passetemps …   English dictionary for students

• skittles — noun a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins • Syn: ↑ninepins • Hypernyms: ↑bowling * * * n ninepins, pins, tenpin bowling, tenpins, skittle pins, kettle pins * * * skittles UK… …   Useful english dictionary

• bowl|ing — «BOH lihng», noun. 1. a) a game played indoors, in which balls are rolled down a wooden alley at ten bottle shaped wooden pins; tenpins. b) (formerly) = ninepins. (Cf. ↑ninepins) 2. the game of bowls. 3. the playing of any of these games …   Useful english dictionary

• Nine-pin bowling — Ninepin bowling pins and ball Highest governing body WNBA Nickname(s) ninepins, 9 pin, kegeln ... First played Medieval times, Germany …   Wikipedia

• The Idler (1758–1760) — This article is about the 18th century series of essays. For other publications called The Idler, see The Idler (disambiguation). The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the… …   Wikipedia

• bowl — I. /boʊl / (say bohl) noun 1. a rather deep, round dish or basin, used chiefly for holding liquids, food, etc. 2. the contents of a bowl. 3. a rounded, hollow part: the bowl of a pipe. 4. a large drinking cup; a goblet. 5. → skate bowl. 6.… …  

• skittle — n. & v. n. 1 a pin used in the game of skittles. 2 (in pl.; usu. treated as sing.) a a game like ninepins played with usu. nine wooden pins set up at the end of an alley to be bowled down usu. with wooden balls or a wooden disc. b (in full table… …   Useful english dictionary