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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four-bagger

Sports; Bowling

When a bowler bowls four strikes in a row.

pick

Sports; Bowling

To only knock down the front pin of a spare.

four-step line

Sports; Bowling

For bowlers to judge the steps they take in their delivery and the line consists of a row of dots closest to the foul line. There are also dots further back, which are for five-step deliveries.

Bowlers have 10 chances to bowl during a game. This is similar to an inning in baseball. So each frame is a tenth of a game for each bowler. If a bowler rolls a strike on the first ball the frame is ...