bowling alley

1. A smooth, level wooden lane used in bowling.

2. A building or room containing lanes for bowling.

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bowling alley

1. (Bowls & Bowling)

a. a long narrow wooden lane down which the ball is rolled in tenpin bowling

b. a similar lane or alley, usually with raised sides, for playing skittles (ninepins)

2. (Bowls & Bowling) a building having several lanes for tenpin bowling

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

bowl′ing al`ley

1. a long, narrow wooden lane or alley, for the game of tenpins.

2. an establishment containing a number of such lanes.

[1545–55]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	bowling alley - a building that contains several alleys for bowling building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"
	2.	bowling alley - a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins skittle alley, alley bowling equipment - equipment used in bowling lane - a well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic foul line - a line across a bowling alley that a bowler must not cross

Translations

مَسار كُرَّة البولينْج

kuželník

bowlinghal

Bowlingbahn

αίθουσα μπόουλινγκ

bolera

keilarata

bowling piste de bowling

kuglana

sala da bowling sala di bowling

ボウリング場

볼링 레인

bowlingbaan

bowlingbane

kręgielnia

pista de boliche pista de bowling

кегельбан

bowlinghall

เลนเล่นโบว์ลิ่ง

bowling salonu

nơi chơi bowling

保龄球场

bowling alley

n → (pista da) bowling m inv

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bowling alley

→ مَسار كُرَّة البولينْج kuželník bowlinghal Bowlingbahn αίθουσα μπόουλινγκ bolera keilarata piste de bowling kuglana sala da bowling ボウリング場 볼링 레인 bowlingbaan bowlingbane kręgielnia pista de boliche, pista de bowling кегельбан bowlinghall เลนเล่นโบว์ลิ่ง bowling salonu nơi chơi bowling 保龄球场

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

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As the time passed, I worked as boy-helper on an ice-wagon, set up pins in a bowling alley with a saloon attached, and swept out saloons at Sunday picnic grounds.

The first day I worked in the bowling alley, the barkeeper, according to custom, called us boys up to have a drink after we had been setting up pins for several hours.

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And, if the Man Higher Up is ever found, take my assurance for it, he will be a large, pale man with blue wristlets showing under his cuffs, and he will be sitting to have his shoes polisbed within sound of a bowling alley, and there will be somewhere about him turquoises.

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