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Spell Bee Word: Bowling


What does bowling mean?

Word: Bowling

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Bowling means sending the ball down the pitch in cricket. It is also a game in which you roll a heavy ball to knock down pins.

How do you spell bowling?

Syllables: bowl - ing

Tricky part: The long o sound is spelt ow, as in the bowl you eat from. Children often write ou or oa (bouling, boaling).

Watch out for: boaling, bouling, boling

Memory tip: The bowl on the dinner table and bowling on the cricket pitch share the same ow.

Bowling in a sentence

Example 1: Jasprit Bumrah is famous for his fast bowling.

Example 2: We went bowling for Ananya's birthday and I knocked down eight pins.

Example 3: Our coach wants us to practise bowling at the stumps.

Fun Fact

In ten-pin bowling, a perfect game scores 300. To get it, a player must knock down every pin with each of 12 balls in a row.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) hocky
b) bowling
c) skeating
d) tenis

Show answer

b) bowling. Hockey has an e before the y, skating has no e after the k and tennis has a double n; bowling is spelt right.

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

bowl

a) ing
b) inge
c) eing
d) eng

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a) ing. Ing is the ending that turns bowl into the name of the action.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our coach praised Ravi for his fast bowlling in the final over.

a) coach
b) bowlling
c) praised
d) final

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b) bowlling. Bowl has one l, and so does bowling.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In cricket, which player faces the bowling?

a) the wicketkeeper
b) the batter
c) the fielder
d) the umpire

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b) the batter

2. In ten-pin bowling, knocking down all the pins with your first ball is called a:

a) spare
b) strike
c) six
d) wicket

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b) strike

Associated Words

carehostileblisscitypraise
ottergarbageagreeablecommandsurprise

Next steps

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