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Antonia: bowling terms
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I don't know the first thing about ten pin bowling. Can you please explain who is alley (dictionary says it is a place where you can bowl). What does it mean in the following context:
Ask the alley to put the sides up for you-it stops the ball going down the gulley and makes it more fun for beginners and children.
What are sides and gulley?
Thank you
I don't know the first thing about ten pin bowling. Can you please explain who is alley (dictionary says it is a place where you can bowl). What does it mean in the following context:
Ask the alley to put the sides up for you-it stops the ball going down the gulley and makes it more fun for beginners and children.
What are sides and gulley?
Thank you
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Here, the alley is the bowling establishment. Ask the staff of the bowling alley to put the sides up . I have never experienced sides , so they must be a relative innovation; presumably, they are erectable 'fences' along both edges of the path which the bowling ball takes to the bowling pins.
- Here, the alley is the bowling establishment.
- Ask the staff of the bowling alley to put the sides up .
- I have never experienced sides , so they must be a relative innovation; presumably, they are erectable 'fences' along both edges of the path which the bowling ball takes to the bowling pins.
- These fences would prevent the ball from rolling out of play into the shallow gutters ( gulleys is another new word for me)-- these are troughs that run the length of the ball path.
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Here, the alley is the bowling establishment. Ask the staff of the bowling alley to put the sides up.
I have never experienced sides, so they must be a relative innovation; presumably, they are erectable 'fences' along both edges of the path which the bowling ball takes to the bowling pins. These fences would prevent the ball from rolling out of play int
I have never experienced sides, so they must be a relative innovation; presumably, they are erectable 'fences' along both edges of the path which the bowling ball takes to the bowling pins. These fences would prevent the ball from rolling out of play int
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Hello!
Well, I am a blowler and I'd use some different terms. The "sides" are called bumpers. They mostly help beginners to keep the ball on the lane. And what you call "gulleys" are simply called gutter *****.
So, that's how it is used in the USA where I live.
Jake
Well, I am a blowler and I'd use some different terms. The "sides" are called bumpers. They mostly help beginners to keep the ball on the lane. And what you call "gulleys" are simply called gutter *****.
So, that's how it is used in the USA where I live.
Jake
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