boules
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a game in which players throw small heavy balls towards a smaller ball on the ground
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an indoor game in which players roll heavy balls along a track, trying to knock down a group of ten pins (=wooden objects that look like bottles)
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a game in which players roll balls across the ground, trying to get as close as possible to a small ball called the jack. The American word is lawn bowling.
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an area of grass where people play bowls (=a game in which you roll balls along the ground)
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a situation in bowling in which you succeed in knocking down all the pins (=bottle shaped objects) with one ball
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one of the ten objects shaped like bottles that you try to knock over in the game of tenpin bowling
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a game played inside where players roll a heavy ball down a bowling lane in order to knock tenpins over. The American word is bowling.
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a percussion instrument used by football fans which makes a rattling sound when shaken
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