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It is an indoor game which is played on a hard-packed surface. The skittles are placed on a square court, each resting on a round piece of wood called pitere or pitet, 2.20 m (7 ft 3 in) apart from each other. A skittle measures about 96 cm (38 in) and weighs 3 kg (6.6 lb), and is made of beech wood.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I believe the article should be called Kegeln. Kegeln (with an n on the end) is the name of the German alley skittles game.Kegel is just the skittle. I still believe it is seen as a German game played in Australia and not as an Australian game (the rules are still the same as the original German game and it is refered to as such in the various online sites).
Skittle Players outside an Inn is an oil-on-oak-panel painting by the Dutch artist Jan Steen, probably painted between 1660 and 1663 during his time in Haarlem. It depicts the playing of a skittles game, and is now in the National Gallery, London , to which it was bequeathed in 1910 by George Salting .
GB/T 1335.2-2008 Size designation of clothes - Women GB/T 1335.3-2008 Size designation of clothes - Children GB/T 2668-2002 Sizes for coats, jackets and trousers