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Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which players try to roll their ball (called a bowl) closest to a smaller ball (known as a "jack" or sometimes a "kitty"). The bowls are shaped (biased), so that they follow a curved path when being rolled.
Modern bowls can be made of ceramic, metal, wood, plastic, and other materials. Bowls have been made for thousands of years. Very early bowls have been found in China, Ancient Greece, Crete and in certain Native American cultures. In Ancient Greek pottery, small bowls, including phiales and pateras, and bowl-shaped cups called kylices were used
The modern day United States National Bowls Championships were inaugurated by ALBA in 1957, although various National Open Championships were held previously. [ 4 ] ALBA merged with the American Women's Lawn Bowls Association (AWLBA) on 1 January 2001 to become the United States Lawn Bowls Association (USLBA) and subsequently USLBA changed its ...
Fire-King Mixing Bowls Turquoise Blue Swedish Modern Bowl Set Ivory Glassware Jadeite Ball Jug Examples of Jadeite and Rainbow Fire-King is an Anchor Hocking brand of glassware similar to Pyrex . It was formerly made of low expansion borosilicate glass and ideal for oven use.
Modern manufactured bowls are known as "narrow bias" bowls as they are designed to take a narrower line, compared to some older brands of bowls manufactured decades ago. Bowls must comply with minimum bias standards determined by World Bowls but vary to suit different styles of play and different playing conditions throughout the world.
Porringer – a shallow bowl, 4–6 inches (10–15 cm) in diameter, and 1.5–3 inches (3.8–7.6 cm) deep; the form originates in the medieval period in Europe and they were made in wood, ceramic, pewter and silver. A second, modern usage, for the term porringer is a double saucepan similar to a bain-marie used for cooking porridge.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the accepted version, checked on 7 February 2025. There are template/file changes awaiting review. Class of sports in which a player rolls a ball towards a target This article is about bowling in general. For specific types of bowling, see Ten-pin bowling, Duckpin bowling, Candlepin bowling, Nine-pin bowling, and Five-pin bowling. For other uses ...
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