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
- Bo Bowling, American football player
- Dan Bowling, Virginia state delegate
- Frank Bowling, Brittish 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