Bowling

Bowling

Terms of or pertaining to a sport in which the object of the game is to knock over a set of pins by rolling a heavy ball across a defined boundary.

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Three hundred (300) game

Sports; Bowling

When a bowler throws 12 strikes in a row. A perfect game.

Three hundred (300) game jinx

Sports; Bowling

It is expected that when a bowler starts out a game with a string of strikes that no one mention the possibility of rolling a 300 game. To do so, it is thought, would "jinx" the player.

Tripped 4

Sports; Bowling

When the number 2 pin knocks over the number 4 by bouncing off the kickback.

X

Sports; Bowling

In the scorecard this is a symbol for a strike.

American Bowling Congress (ABC)

Sports; Bowling

This is the organisation for tenpin bowling that is the official rule making for the sport. The organisation has members in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and all US military around the ...

Brooklyn

Sports; Bowling

A ball that hits on the wrong side of the headpin. This would be ball that hits to the left of the headpin for right-handed bowlers and to the right for left-handed bowlers.