- 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, especially 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.
- the game of bowls; lawn bowling.
- an act or instance of playing or participating in any such game: Bowling is a pleasant way to exercise.
- any of various games in which a heavy ball is rolled down a special alley, usually made of wood, at a group of wooden pins, esp the games of tenpin bowling (tenpins) and skittles (ninepins)
- the game of bowls
- the act of delivering the ball to the batsman
- of or relating to bowls or bowling
