plural of bowl

A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bowl

A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. / As much as is held by a bowl.

The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls. / The action of bowling a ball. / (in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.

(transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports. / (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).

simple past tense and past participle of bowl

(cricket) (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.

present participle of bowl

A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling / (New England) Candlepin bowling.