Bowling games can be distinguished into two general classes, pin bowling and target bowling.
Bowling is a sasaran sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another sasaran (in sasaran bowling). The termin bowling usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), though in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries, bowling could also refer to sasaran bowling, such as lawn bowls.
In pin bowling, the goal is to knock over pins on a long playing surface known as a lane. Lanes have a wood or synthetic surface onto which protective lubricating oil is applied in different specified oil patterns that affect ball motion. A strike is achieved when all the pins are knocked down on the first roll, and a spare is achieved if all the pins are knocked over on a second roll. Common tipes of pin bowling include ten-pin, candlepin, duckpin, nine-pin, and five-pin. The historical games skittles is the forerunner of kekinian pin bowling.
In sasaran bowling, the aim is usually to get the ball as close to a mark as possible. The surface in sasaran bowling may be grass, gravel, or synthetic.[1] Lawn bowls, bocce, carpet bowls, pétanque, and boules may have both indoor and outdoor varieties. Curling is also terkait to bowls.
Bowling is played by 120 million people in more than 90 countries (including 70 million in the United States alone).
Another form of bowling is usually played outdoors on a lawn. At outdoor bowling, the players throw a ball, which is sometimes eccentrically weighted, in an attempt to put it closest to a designated poin or slots in the bowling tempat. (Ex: Bocce Ball, an Italian lawn game)
The earliest known forms of bowling date back to ancient Egypt,[5] with wall drawings depicting bowling being found in a royal Egyptian tomb dated to 5200 BC and miniature pins and balls in an Egyptian child's grave about 5200 BC.[6][7] Remnants of bowling balls were found among artifacts in ancient Egypt going back to the Egyptian protodynastic period in 3200 BC.[8] What is thought to be a child's games involving porphyry (stone) balls, a miniature trilithon, and nine breccia-veined alabaster vase-shaped figures—thought to resemble the more kekinian games of skittles—was found in Naqada, Egypt in 1895.
