| Bowling is a game of scoring points by | | | | can be thrown in quick succession. The game |
| knocking down pins with balls. Fundamentally, | | | | employs smaller balls without fingerholes, |
| a player rolls a heavy bowling ball into a | | | | making it difficult to attain a perfect score |
| flat surface to knock down arranged pins of | | | | since splits are more frequent. |
| nine or ten, depending on the game you play. | | | | |
| There are several forms of bowling; some are | | | | The outdoor type usually utilizes a lawn, or |
| played indoors which usually uses a lane or a | | | | a patch of gravel. The examples of which are |
| long flat polished wood surface with gutters | | | | Lawn Bowling, Bocce, and Petanque. Petanque |
| along the length of the lane. Primary | | | | is widely played in especially in France. |
| examples of these indoor types are the | | | | |
| feather bowling, duckpin bowling, candlepin | | | | Tracing up bowling's history, it is widely |
| bowling, ninepin skittles, five pin bowling | | | | believed that the German culture was the |
| and the most popular form of bowling which is | | | | cradle of this sport. Though there have been |
| the Ten-pin. | | | | substantial evidences of bowling-like games |
| | | | in ancient Egypt, history clearly points that |
| Ten-pin bowling is very similar to the other | | | | bowling really did occur in Germany since its |
| forms, except the game obviously uses ten | | | | dark ages. In those days, heathens and |
| pins which the player should attempt to knock | | | | heretics abound the land and the usual |
| down as many pins possible to score points. | | | | practice for the German clergy was a simple |
| The game has ten frames with each frame | | | | test of knocking down clubs called Kegel by |
| consisting two rolls for each competing | | | | rolling a stone or a wooden ball. If the |
| player. | | | | individual succeeds in knocking the club |
| | | | down, he is considered free of sin. This |
| Another popular bowling variant is the | | | | practice eventually made its way from the |
| Five-pin bowling which is often played in | | | | secular world to the common people and along |
| Canada. It is a recent modification of | | | | the way got more refined until ultimately |
| Ten-pin bowling but instead of two attempts, | | | | became an interesting sport that survived |
| Five-pin has three attempts, and each attempt | | | | till this day. |