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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Outside

Sports; Bowling

A corner or near corner position on the playing lanes.

Over

Sports; Bowling

Professional bowlers consider 200 per game about average or par. The number of pins above 200 is the number of pins that are "over". So a score of 230 is 30 over.

Open frame

Sports; Bowling

A frame in which the bowler does not have a strike or spare but a number for the number of pins they knocked down. Also called a: blow, error, miss.

Out and in

Sports; Bowling

A ball that has a wide hook. It is rolled from the centre of the lane, it moves toward the gutter and then hooks back toward the pocket, thus going out, and then in.

Out of bounds

Sports; Bowling

When a bowler throws a ball that goes to an area on the lanes where it has no chance to make it back to the pocket.

Pick

Sports; Bowling

To only knock down the front pin of a spare.

When too much spin is put on the ball and not enough finger lift. The result is the ball does not have the proper action. When releasing a bowling ball the thumb should come out first, which will let ...