🏟️ A big stadium 🥣 A deep dish 🍲 A serving 🎳 To roll 🚬 Pipe part 🎳 A bowling ball 🎳 A roll

to bowl

162 2.5

To roll a ball in games like bowling

verb
/boʊl/

: lanzar

He practiced hard to improve his technique and bowl better in the next competition.
bowling alone

And you know, I would, we would go bowling and he could still bowl.

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Examples

I like to bowl.

Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
So are you going bowling with us tonight?

The Cardboard Lover (1928)
Maybe we'll order some food you can eat and we'll bowl maybe for your birthday.
And you know, I would, we would go bowling and he could still bowl.

Lex Fridman
Well, should I go home or go bowling with the guys?

Fiction book (1991)
We're gonna go bowling with Anthony.

The Blob (1988)
When I don't bowl a strike, I get real mad.
Do you bowl?

The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
And on Saturdays, some of us go bowling, but we don't invite everyone.

Honor Society (2022)
We decided to bowl at the local alley this weekend for some fun.

Synonyms

to pitch

vsto bowl

163 2.3

To throw a card in a card game to help decide the trump suit

rolls or delivers a ball along the ground, as in cricket and similar sports

Idioms

to take the Browns to the Super Bowl

NSFW

9.9

To say you need to go to the toilet to poop as a joke

Phrasal Verbs

to bowl over

Informal

3 4.9

To make someone feel very surprised and impressed

to bowl over

1 5.1

To knock something so it falls over

to bowl out

Jargon

1 8.1

To get all the players who are batting for the other team out so they cannot bat anymore

to bowl a googly

Jargon

9.9

To spin the ball in cricket so it turns the other way to confuse the batsman

to bowl up

5.6

To put food into a bowl to serve it

to lick out the bowl

8.2

To eat the last food in a bowl with your tongue

Compounds

toilet bowl

13 1.0

A large part of a toilet that holds waste until you flush

punch bowl

12 2.6

A large deep bowl for serving drinks at parties

mixing bowl

11 1.0

A large bowl for putting ingredients together when you cook or bake

soup bowl

4 1.0

A deep dish for serving and eating soup

dust bowl

3 6.5

A dry area with strong dust storms that ruined farms in the 1930s

sugar bowl

3 1.0

A small container for serving sugar at the table

salad bowl

3 1.0

A bowl for mixing and serving salad

cereal bowl

2 1.0

A bowl used for eating breakfast cereal

finger bowl

Archaic

2 7.0

A small bowl of water for rinsing fingers between courses

begging bowl

1 7.5

A bowl that people use to collect money or food from others

bowl of cherries

Informal

1 6.0

A very pleasant situation

fish bowl

1 1.4

A clear round container to keep small pet fish

rice bowl

1 2.6

A bowl of rice served with toppings, or a person's job that gives them money

bowl of ramen

1 2.5

A serving of Japanese noodle soup with hot broth and toppings like meat or egg

goldfish bowl

1 3.0

A round clear glass container used to keep small pet fish

goldfish bowl

Informal

1 6.5

A situation where others watch you closely and you have no privacy

bowl chopper

Specialized

7.6

A machine that chops and mixes meat quickly with fast blades in a round bowl

bowl cutter

Specialized

6.1

A machine that chops and mixes meat and other food inside a spinning bowl

bowl of lau kui

9.9

A portion of lau kui served hot in a bowl

fish bowl

4.6

A situation where many people watch you and you have no privacy

pipe bowl

6.5

The round open part of a smoking pipe that holds tobacco

slop bowl

Archaic

9.1

A bowl for holding leftover tea or coffee from cups

slop bowl

8.2

A bowl for holding kitchen scraps to feed animals like pigs

How Fast

to hurl

53 3.6

throw

145 1.0

to bowl

162 2.5

to lob

22 3.5

to roll

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

bowl infinitive

bowled past

bowled past participle

bowling present participle

bowls third person singular

Etymology

Bowl as a verb comes from the game idea: you 'roll' or send the round object called a bowl, so the action took the name of the ball and now means to roll or play bowling.