Pin bowling

Bowling is a sport in which a player, with focus and effort, rolls a bowling ball down a lane to hit a cluster of pins in order to acheive the maximum amount of pinfall.

Terminology

• Frame: a single round, consisting of two attempts to knock all pins down, with an exception on frame 10.
• Bowling ball: a ball typically made of urathane or some other composite plastic, with a specific weight and three holes drilled which are reserved usually for the thumb, middle, and ring fingers.
• Pin: a white wooden construct that when knocked down counts as one point.
• Lane: the entire distance between the pins and the throw line.
• Strike: knocking down all 10 pins down in a single frame with one attempt. Designated on a scorecard by the symbol "X"
• Spare: knocking down all 10 pins down in a single frame within two attempts. Designated on a scorecard by the symbol "/"
• Approach: the method in which a bowler travels from a starting position to the throw line manipulating his or her body in conjunction with the bowling bowl to achieve the greatest possible attempt.
• Turkey: scoring three strikes in a row.
• Gutter: two channels that lie on either side of the lane that conform to the shape of the bowling ball. Rolling a ball into a gutter results in a score of zero for that attempt.
• 10^th frame: the last frame in a single game. The maximum amount of attempts that may occur in frame 10 is three, providing each attempt results in a strike, or if a spare occurs in the first two attempts during this frame, or if a strike is the first ball thrown.