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Of or pertaining to any organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity or game requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means within a specified set of rules.
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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.
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.
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.
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