bowling

Other forms of bowling

plural

bowlings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bowling

What does bowling mean?

bowling means "a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bowling?

bowling has 2 syllables: bow-ling. The stress falls on "bow". In IPA it is /ˈboʊlɪŋ/.

Is bowling a common word?

bowling is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.