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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open bowling

Sports; Bowling

Bowling for fun or practice. Non-competitive bowling.

flat alley

Sports; Bowling

A lane that doesn't allow the action placed on the ball to hold as it would on most lanes.

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.

flat arc

Sports; Bowling

When delivering the ball the curved path of a ball is too low to the approach or it is off to either side and so the delivery is not a perfect circle.

out and in

Sports; Bowling

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