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Bowling, bowling, billiards similar equipment
Bowling is a sport in which players attempt to score points by rolling a bowling ball along a flat surface, usually a wooden or synthetic surface, either into pins or to get close to a target ball.
A ten-pin bowler releases the ball. See also
Billiard or billiards may refer to:
- A billiard, a type of shot in cue sports (see below)
- Billiards: Cue sports in general, including pool, carom billiards, snooker, etc. The term "billiards" by itself is also sometimes used to refer to any of the following more specifically:
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- Carom billiards (also known as French billiards) games in general (a chiefly non-British usage, in the North America, the British Commonwealth, etc.)
- The specific game of English billiards (a chiefly British and Commonwealth English usage)
- Pool (pocket billiards) games (such as eight-ball and nine-ball) in general (a chiefly colloquial North American usage)
- Billiard, the (chiefly French) long-scale name for the number 10 in mathematics (called "quadrillion" in short scale)
- Dynamical billiards, the mathematical theory of particle trajectories within a closed reflective boundary, in theoretical physics (contrast this mass noun with the count noun "dynamical billiard", below)
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- A dynamical billiard, any of several systems of particle trajectories within a closed reflective boundary
- Nicolas billiards, an obscure French board game invented in 1895, and of no relation to the games above (see its French article for an illustration)
- Indian (or Nepalese) finger billiards, the board game better known as carrom.
- Electric billiards, an obscure term for pinball (from the French billard électrique, who today call pinball flipper, a borrowing fro
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