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    Bowling is a sport that involves rolling a ball down a lane towards pins or targets. The main goal is to knock down all the pins on the first roll, called a strike, or get the ball closest to the target. There are various types of bowling including ten-pin, target bowling on grass or gravel, and variations have been played for thousands of years in ancient Egypt, Rome, and Germany evolving into modern games played globally today by over 100 million people.

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    Bowling is a sport that involves rolling a ball down a lane towards pins or targets. The main goal is to knock down all the pins on the first roll, called a strike, or get the ball closest to the target. There are various types of bowling including ten-pin, target bowling on grass or gravel, and variations have been played for thousands of years in ancient Egypt, Rome, and Germany evolving into modern games played globally today by over 100 million people.

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    Bowling is a sport that involves rolling a ball down a lane towards pins or targets. The main goal is to knock down all the pins on the first roll, called a strike, or get the ball closest to the target. There are various types of bowling including ten-pin, target bowling on grass or gravel, and variations have been played for thousands of years in ancient Egypt, Rome, and Germany evolving into modern games played globally today by over 100 million people.

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    Bowling is a sport that involves rolling a ball down a lane towards pins or targets. The main goal is to knock down all the pins on the first roll, called a strike, or get the ball closest to the target. There are various types of bowling including ten-pin, target bowling on grass or gravel, and variations have been played for thousands of years in ancient Egypt, Rome, and Germany evolving into modern games played globally today by over 100 million people.

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    Bowling is a sport or leisure activity in which a player rolls or throws a bowling ball towards a target.

    It is one of the major forms of throwing sports. In pin bowling variations, the target is usually to knock
    over pins at the end of a lane. When all the pins are knocked down on the first roll, this is a strike. If
    you get 12 strikes in a row you can score a 300. Four strikes is a seagull. This is the maximum score
    for the sport. In target variations, the aim is usually to get the ball as close to a mark as possible.
    The pin version of bowling is often played on a flat wooden or other synthetic surface (which can be
    oiled in different patterns for different techniques),[1] while in target bowling, the surface may be
    grass, gravel or a synthetic surface.[2] The most common types of pin bowling include ten-pin, nine-
    pin, candlepin, duckpin and five-pin bowling, while in target
    bowling, bowls, skittles, kegel, bocce, carpet bowls, ptanque, and boules, both indoor and outdoor
    varieties are popular. Today the sport of bowling is played by 100 million people in more than 90
    countries worldwide (including 70 million in the United States),[3] and continues to grow through
    entertainment media such as video games for home consoles and handheld devices.[4]
    Bowling in the United States and Canada most frequently refers to ten-pin bowling. In the United
    Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries it more often refers to lawn bowls.

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    1History
    o 1.1Antiquity
    o 1.2Middle Ages
    o 1.316th to 18th centuries
    o 1.4In the 19th century
    o 1.5In the 20th century
    o 1.6In the 21st century
    2Variations
    o 2.1Pin bowling
    o 2.2Target bowling
    3Accessibility
    4In popular culture
    o 4.1With notable individuals
    4.1.1U.S. Presidents
    o 4.2Onscreen
    4.2.1In films
    4.2.2On television
    o 4.3Paintings
    5See also
    6References
    7External links

    History[edit]
    Antiquity[edit]
    The earliest known forms of bowling date to ancient Egypt.[5] Remnants of balls used at the time
    were found among artifacts in ancient Egypt going back to 3200 BC [6] Balls were made using the
    husks of grains, covered in material such as leather, and bound with string. Other balls made of
    porcelain have also been found, indicating that these were rolled along the ground rather than
    thrown due to their size and weight.[6] Some of these resemble the modern day jack used in target
    bowl games. Bowling games of different forms are also noted by Herodotus as an invention of
    the Lydians in Asia Minor.[7]
    About 2,000 years ago, in the Roman Empire, a similar game evolved between Roman legionaries
    entailing the tossing of stone objects as close as possible to other stone objects, which eventually
    evolved into Italian Bocce, or outdoor bowling.[8]
    About 400 AD, bowling began in Germany as a religious ritual to cleanse oneself from sin by rolling
    a rock into a club (kegel) representing the heathen, causing bowlers to be called keglers.[9]

    Middle Ages[edit]
    In 1299 the oldest known bowling green for target style bowling to survive to modern times was built,
    Master's Close (now the Old Bowling Green of the Southampton Bowling Club) in Southampton,
    England; it is still in use.[10]
    In 1325 laws were passed in Berlin and Cologne limiting bets on lawn bowling to five shillings.[9]
    In 1366 the first official mention of bowling in England was made when King Edward III banned it as
    a distraction to archery practice.[11]
    In the 15th-17th centuries lawn bowling spread from Germany into Austria, Switzerland, and the Low
    Countries, with playing surfaces made of cinders or baked clay.[9]
    In 1455 lawn bowling lanes in London were first roofed-over, turning bowling into an all-weather
    game.[9] In Germany they were called kegelbahns, often attached to taverns and guest houses.
    In 1463 a public feast was held in Frankfurt, Germany, with a venison dinner followed by lawn
    bowling.[9]

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