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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love tap

Sports; Bowling

When one pin that has been knocked down just touches another pin but it is enough to knock the second pin over.

bedposts

Sports; Bowling

This is when the 7 and 10 pins are left standing. Other names for this include; fence posts, goal posts and snake eyes.

This is an area roughly twenty feet from the foul line. This is where the maple boards meet the pine boards. Maple boards are used between the foul line and the break of the boards because they can ...

split

Sports; Bowling

When on a leave the remaining pins are widely separated, making a spare difficult to pick up. The 7-10 split is the most difficult to pick up. Also known as "split leave"