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Skittle alley: a long narrow building in which skittles is usually played. Skittle the noise made when the skittles fall. Skittler's Nine (Worcestershire, North Somerset, and Gloucestershire): a nine achieved where a spare has not been possible, i.e. when the front pin has punched the middle and the back pin out.
Scale diagram of bowling pins and balls for several variants of the sport. The horizontal blue lines are 1 inch (2.5 cm) apart vertically. Bowling pins (historically also known as skittles or kegels) are upright elongated solids of rotation with a flat base for setting, usually made of wood (esp. maple) standing between 9 and 16 inches (23 and 41cm) tall.
The table skittle alley. The table skittles alley consists of a sloping, framed playing surface, the table skittles board. This is usually placed on a waist-high table. The game is played with a wooden spinning top, which is used to try to knock down as many of the nine wooden pins as possible. The dimensions of the board are 82 cm x 41 cm.
Duckpin bowling is a variation of the sport of bowling.. Duckpin balls are 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (12 cm) to 5 in (12.7 cm) in diameter, weigh 3 lb 6 oz (1.5 kg) to 3 lb 12 oz (1.7 kg) each, and lack finger holes.
The 41.5-inch-wide (105 cm), 60-foot-long (18 m) lane is bordered along its length by gutters (channels) that collect errant balls. The lane's long and narrow shape limits straight-line ball paths to angles that are smaller than optimum angles for achieving strikes; accordingly, bowlers impart side rotation to hook (curve) the ball into the ...
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The top of the post swivels to allow the ball to swing freely. The aim of the game is to knock down the skittles by swinging the ball in an arc round the post (rather than aiming directly at the skittles). [1] It is also the name of a game in which each player spins a spinning top with a string, to knock down skittles, earning points for doing so.
Nine-pin bowler in East Germany, 1976. This game is played by rolling a ball down an alley towards nine pins. There are three variations of lane shape: [2] Classic lanes are 19.5 m (64 ft) long and 1.3 m (4.3 ft) wide for their entire length.