Bowling vs Tennis - What's the difference?
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A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling
(label) Candlepin bowling.
Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
(label) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
(label) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
(label) The action of the verb .
(label) Road bowling.
(label) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
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(label) A match in this sport.
* 1918 , (Violet Hunt), The Last Ditch (page 95)
(obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
* (Shakespeare)
* (1800-1859)
(dated) To play tennis.
To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
As verbs the difference between bowling and tennis
is that bowling is present participle of lang=en while tennis is to play tennis.As nouns the difference between bowling and tennis
is that bowling is a game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling while tennis is a sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.bowling
English
(bowling)Verb
(head)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* bowling alley * bowling ball * bowling green * ten-pin bowling * candlepin bowlingSee also
* boules * bowls * crown green bowling * lawn bowls * ninepins * skittlesAnagrams
* ----tennis
Noun
(en-noun)George Goodchild
- We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises
- His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis , were familiar to all London.
Derived terms
* football tennis * lawn tennis * real tennis * tennis ball * tennis court * tennis player * tennis racket * tennis racquetSee also
* table tennis or ping pongVerb
- (Spenser)
