Bowling Alley

Definition: Bowling Alley

Bowling Alley

Noun

1. A building that contains several alleys for bowling.

2. A lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Bowling Alley

Amusement

Park, plaisance; national park, national forest, state park, county park, city park, vest-pocket park, public park (public) a; arbor; garden; (horticulture); pleasure ground, playground, cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground; tennis court, racket court; bowling alley, green alley; croquet lawn, rink, glaciarum, skating rink; roundabout, merry-go-round; swing; montagne Russe.

Crosswords: Bowling Alley

How are they going to deliver a bowling alley here tonight (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark)

It could be a bowling alley! (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark)

I didn't expect them to send a whole damn bowling alley. (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark)

I am a lawyer, I own a bowling alley. Two separate things (Ed; writing credit: Steven Joel Kerzner)

Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85-cents at the bowling alley. (references; author: unknown)

The Bowling Alley (1920)

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References

• The World Market for Table or Parlor Games, Printed Tables for Casino Games, Automated Bowling Alley Equipment, and Billiards: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• That Bowling Alley on the Tiber: Tales of a Director (reference)

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Four images related to bowling, clockwise from top left: painting of Abraham Lincoln with friends in bowling alley; Dean Rusk, bowling; photograph of woman bowling; and engraving of women bowling in 1880's. Credit: Library of Congress.

Choosing ball. Bowling alley, Clinton, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pin boy in bowling alley. Clinton, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Watching the game. Bowling alley, Clinton, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Keeping score. Bowling alley, Clinton, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Girl in bowling alley. Clinton, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bowling alley. Clinton, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Century Bowling Alley, Wall St., Huntington, Long Island, New York. Detail A. Credit: Library of Congress.

Editors (Kiplinger) Building. Bowling alley in Editors (Kiplinger) Building I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

German

kegelbahn (bowling lane, skittle alley). (various references)

Greek 

αίθουσα σφαιρίσεωσ. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

コスト効率 (bowling in a bowling alley that is lit up like a disco with lots of flashing lights, cockatrice, Cocker spaniel, cockney, cockpit, cockroach, cook, coq d'or, cosmetic, cosmetic lens, cosmetics, cosmetology, cosmic, cosmology, cosmonaut, cosmopolis, cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanism, cosmos, cost effectiveness, costume play, cottage, cotton, cox, faucet, glass, Kodak, rough play, spigot, tap). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

コズミックボーリング (bowling in a bowling alley that is lit up like a disco with lots of flashing lights). (various references)

Manx

thie boulleraght, cooyrt voulleraght. (various references)

Pig Latin

owlingbay alleyay.(various references)

Romanian

popicãrie. (various references)

Russian 

кегельбан (alley, skittle alley, skittle-alley, skittle-ground). (various references)

Spanish

bolera (alley, skittle alley). (various references)

Swedish

bowlbana. (various references)

Turkish

bovling pisti. (various references)

Ukrainian

кегельбан (alley). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: lowballing.

-3 letters: bellowing, bowelling, labelling, yellowing.

-4 letters: allowing, alloying, belaying, bellying, boweling, bowingly, elbowing, genially, globally, labeling, lineally, lonelily, willable.

-5 letters: agilely, alienly, allonge, allying, balling, baloney, bawling, begonia, belling, belying, billowy, biogeny, blawing, blowing, bolling, bowline, bowling, gallein, galleon, ignoble, ignobly, illegal, lalling, langley, legally, legibly, linable, linalol, lobelia, lolling, lowball, obeying, ownable.