Bowling (disambiguation)

Bowling is a competitive and recreational sport. Variants include:

• Ten-pin bowling, the most popular type of bowling today
• Nine-pin bowling
• Five-pin bowling, a bowling variant which is played only in Canada
• Duckpin bowling
• Candlepin bowling
• Lawn Bowls: a Commonwealth Games and Paralympic Games sport; see Lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games
• Deck Skittles which may have a flat bowling bowl or 'cheese'.

Bowling may also refer to:

Sports

• Bowling (cricket), the act of propelling the ball towards the wicket in the sport of cricket
• Irish road bowling, a traditional Irish game, played along country roads, involving throwing a metal ball, the winner being the participant whose ball traverses the course in the fewest throws.
• "Going bowling": Involving oneself in a bowl game (North American Football), either as a member of a team or as a spectator

People

• Ann T. Bowling, American geneticist
• Bo Bowling, American football player
• Dan Bowling, Virginia state delegate
• Frank Bowling, British artist
• John C. Bowling, president of Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois

Places

• Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, a village in Scotland
• Bowling, a residential district of Bradford, West Yorkshire

Fictional references

• "Bowling" (Malcolm in the Middle), Emmy Award-winning 35th episode of the TV series
• "Bowling" (List of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episodes#ep39), an episode from the TV series

Video games

• Bowling (video game), a 1978 video game for the Atari 2600

See also

• Bowl (disambiguation)
• Bowler (disambiguation)