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A bowling ball is a hard spherical ball used to knock down bowling pins in the sport of bowling.
This 1892 ad shows Lignum vitae (hardwood) balls of various sizes.
A polyester ("plastic") house ball, having large, non-custom holes in a conventional grip (fingers insert to the second knuckle; thumb hole relatively close to the finger holes)
A polyester ("plastic") ball. Pin location is between finger holes and thumb hole (pin down layout). Ball is used as a "straight ball" for some spare shots.
A polyurethane ("urethane") ball with a pin up layout. Urethane coverstocks provide gentler, less angular hooking motion than reactive resin balls.
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Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins or another target. Most references to bowling are to pin bowling, specifically tenpin bowling. Bowling ca
Bowling ball
…A bowling ball is a hard spherical ball used to knock down bowling pins in the sport of bowling. Balls used in tenpin bowling and nine-pin bowling traditionally have holes for two fingers and the thumb. Balls used in five-pin bowling, candlepin…
Pin bowling: a tenpin bowler at an indoor bowling alley
Target bowling: Bowls players at a bowling club
Archeologist's drawing of items found in 1895 in a tomb in Naqada, Egypt, thought to resemble the modern game of skittles. The archeologist speculated about the arrangement of the items.
Bocce players in an illuminated manuscript