tenpins

4.5

A game of bowling played with a large ball to knock down ten pins

noun
/ˈtɛnˌpɪnz/

: bolos

Unlike in duckpins, tenpins uses a larger ball and taller pins.

Examples

We played tenpins at the bowling alley on Saturday night.
Many people enjoy watching tenpins tournaments on television.
We played tenpins at the local bowling alley.
Have you ever tried tenpins?
After a long day, they enjoyed playing tenpins at the local bowling alley.
On Friday nights, their family tradition is to go out and play tenpins together.
He has been practicing his skills at tenpins to improve his game before the tournament.

Synonyms

bowling

vstenpins

210 1.0

A game in which people roll a ball to knock down pins

is a North American specific form played with ten wooden pins in triangle

tenpin bowling

vstenpins

2.5

A game where players roll a heavy ball down a lane to knock down ten pins arranged in a triangle

is the North American variant played on an alley with a triangular pin setup

Surface Forms

tenpins singular

tenpins plural

Morphology

tenpins = tenpin (transparent) = ten + pin + s

Formed from the clear compound 'ten' + 'pin' (tenpin) with a regular plural '-s', so the meaning is directly derivable.

Etymology

Tenpins comes from the simple parts ten ('ten') and pin ('a small wooden peg'). The game uses ten wooden pins arranged in a triangle, so the name tells you what players roll a ball to knock down.