tenpin bowling

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   bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins

   Synonymstenpins

   Broaderbowling

Questions about tenpin bowling

What does tenpin bowling mean?

tenpin bowling means "bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins".

What is another word for tenpin bowling?

Close synonyms include tenpins. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tenpin bowling a common word?

tenpin bowling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.