Meanings
plural bowling alleys
- A building or room which contains lanes for bowling.
1 more example
Making nice on a cooking program or game show is the macropopulist equivalent of knocking down pins in a bowling alley in Altoona, Pa., or belting down Crown Royal whiskey in a bar in Crown Point, Ind., only better: the setting, be it Rachael Ray’s kitchen or Howie Mandel ’s array of suitcases on “Deal or No Deal,” is as familiar as home to millions of viewers.
2008 April 22, Alessandra Stanley, “Politicians as Comics: A Sideshow on Pop TV”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2021Synonyms: bowladrome
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA building or room which contains lanes for bowling.
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Translations
Bulgarian зала за боулинг
- зала за боулинг (zala za bouling)a building which contains bowling lanes
Catalan bowling
- bowlinga building which contains bowling lanes
Chinese Cantonese 保齡球場 /保龄球场, 保齡場 /保龄场
- 保齡球場 /保龄球场 (bou² ling⁴ kau⁴ coeng⁴)a building which contains bowling lanes
- 保齡場 /保龄场 (bou² ling⁴ coeng⁴)a building which contains bowling lanes
- 碌齡場 /碌龄场a building which contains bowling lanes
Chinese Mandarin 保齡球館 /保龄球馆
- 保齡球館 /保龄球馆 (bǎolíngqiúguǎn)a building which contains bowling lanes
Czech kuželna
- kuželnaa building which contains bowling lanes
Danish bowlinghal
- bowlinghala building which contains bowling lanes
Esperanto bovlingejo
- bovlingejoa building which contains bowling lanes
Finnish keilahalli
- keilahallia building which contains bowling lanes
French allée de bowling, bowling
- allée de bowlinga building which contains bowling lanes
- bowlinga building which contains bowling lanes
- salle de quillesa building which contains bowling lanes
German Kegelbahn, Bowlingbahn
- Kegelbahna building which contains bowling lanes
- Bowlingbahna building which contains bowling lanes
Italian bocciodromo
- bocciodromoa building which contains bowling lanes
Korean 볼링장
- 볼링장 (bollingjang)a building which contains bowling lanes
Lithuanian boulingo takas, boulingas
- boulingo takasa building which contains bowling lanes
- boulingasa building which contains bowling lanes
- kėglinėa building which contains bowling lanes
Polish kręgielnia
- kręgielniaa building which contains bowling lanes
Romanian sală de bowling, bowling
- sală de bowlinga building which contains bowling lanes
- bowlinga building which contains bowling lanes
- popicăriea building which contains bowling lanes
Slovak kolkáreň
- kolkáreňa building which contains bowling lanes
Spanish bolera, boliche
- boleraa building which contains bowling lanes
- bolichea building which contains bowling lanes
- cancha de bowlinga building which contains bowling lanes
Swedish bowlinghall
- bowlinghalla building which contains bowling lanes
Turkish bovling salonu
- bovling salonua building which contains bowling lanes
Cite this entry
bowling alley. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bowling%20alley
“bowling alley.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bowling%20alley. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bowling alley,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bowling%20alley.
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