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 wooden pins set up at the opposite end. Compare boccie , candlepin ( def. 2 ) , duckpin ( def. 2 ) , lawn bowling , ninepin ( def. 2 ) , tenpin ( def. 2 ) .

the game of bowls.

an act or instance of playing or participating in any such game

Bowling is a pleasant way to exercise.

noun

bowls , duckpins , candlepins , ninepins , lawn bowling , skittles , kegling