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Bowling is a game
Game

A game is a structured wiktionary:activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from Manual labour, which is usually carried out for wiktionary:remuneration, and from art, which is more concerned with the expression of ideas....
 in which players attempt to score points by rolling a bowling ball
Bowling ball

A bowling ball is a round ball made from urethane, plastic, reactive resin or a combination of these materials which is used in the sport of bowling....
 along a flat surface either into objects called pins
Bowling pin

Bowling pins are the target of the bowling ball in various bowling games including Ten-pin bowling, Five-pin bowling, Duckpin bowling, and Candlepin bowling....
 or to get close to a target ball. There are many forms of bowling, with one of the most recent being ten-pin bowling
Ten-pin bowling

Ten-pin bowling is a Competition sport in which a player bowling form a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many Bowling pin as possible....
 and the earliest dating back to ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an Ancient history civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile in what is now the modern nation of Egypt....
. Other places where bowling was first seen were ancient Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
 and Yemen
Yemen

Yemen , officially the Republic of Yemen is an Arab country located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia. Yemen has an estimated population of more than 23 million people and is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the North, the Red Sea to the West, the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden to the South, and Oman to the east....
, and in 300 A.D. in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. The first standardized rules were established in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, on September 9, 1895.






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Bowling is a game
Game

A game is a structured wiktionary:activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from Manual labour, which is usually carried out for wiktionary:remuneration, and from art, which is more concerned with the expression of ideas....
 in which players attempt to score points by rolling a bowling ball
Bowling ball

A bowling ball is a round ball made from urethane, plastic, reactive resin or a combination of these materials which is used in the sport of bowling....
 along a flat surface either into objects called pins
Bowling pin

Bowling pins are the target of the bowling ball in various bowling games including Ten-pin bowling, Five-pin bowling, Duckpin bowling, and Candlepin bowling....
 or to get close to a target ball. There are many forms of bowling, with one of the most recent being ten-pin bowling
Ten-pin bowling

Ten-pin bowling is a Competition sport in which a player bowling form a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many Bowling pin as possible....
 and the earliest dating back to ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an Ancient history civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile in what is now the modern nation of Egypt....
. Other places where bowling was first seen were ancient Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
 and Yemen
Yemen

Yemen , officially the Republic of Yemen is an Arab country located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia. Yemen has an estimated population of more than 23 million people and is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the North, the Red Sea to the West, the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden to the South, and Oman to the east....
, and in 300 A.D. in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. The first standardized rules were established in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, on September 9, 1895. Today, bowling is enjoyed by 95 million people in more than ninety countries worldwide.

Outdoor variations

The second category of bowling is usually played outdoors on a lawn. At outdoor bowling, the players throw a ball, which is sometimes eccentrically weighted, in an attempt to put it closest to a designated point or slot in the bowling arena.

Included in the outdoor category:
  • Lawn bowls
    Bowls

    Bowls is a sport in which the goal is to roll slightly asymmetric balls, called bowls, closest to a smaller—normally white—bowl called the "jack" or "kitty"....
  • Bocce
    Bocce

    Bocce , is a precision sport belonging to the boules sport family, closely related to bowls and p?tanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire....
  • Pétanque
    Pétanque

    P?tanque is a form of boules where the goal is, while standing with the feet together in a small circle, to throw metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet ....
  • Irish road bowling
    Irish Road Bowling

    Irish road bowling is an ancient sport. It is centered in Ireland - primarily in County Armagh and County Cork. However, it also has players in Boston, MA, Cambridge, NY, Traverse City, MI Riverdale, Bronx, New Zealand and is growing in the fairs and festivals of the State of West Virginia....


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