A sport where players roll a heavy ball down a lane to knock over pins arranged at the end.
From Old English 'bowle' (a ball), related to Old French 'boule.' The modern sport developed in Germany in the 1400s and spread to America, where tenpins replaced the original nine-pin setup.
Bowling pins were originally made of wood, but modern ones are a composite material that can be hit thousands of times without breaking—yet a perfectly rolled ball creates an explosion of them in seconds!
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