"bowls" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /bəʊlz/ [UK], /boʊlz/ [General-American]
Rhymes: -əʊlz Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} bowls
  1. plural of bowl Tags: form-of, plural Form of: bowl
    Sense id: en-bowls-en-noun-opGKDcU1

Noun

IPA: /bəʊlz/ [UK], /boʊlz/ [General-American]
Rhymes: -əʊlz Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} bowls
  1. A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do. Categories (topical): Bowls (game) Translations (precision sport): 草地滾球 (Chinese Mandarin), 草地滚球 (cǎodì gǔnqiú) (Chinese Mandarin), bowls (Dutch), koersbal (Dutch), keegel (Estonian), nurmikeilailu (Finnish), boulingrin [masculine] (French), Bowlsspiel [neuter] (German), teke (Hungarian), kugli (Hungarian), bocce (Italian), ローンボウルズ (rōnbōruzu) (Japanese), боќање (boḱanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), maita (Maori), bocha [feminine] (Portuguese), bowls [masculine] (Portuguese), игра́ в боулз (igrá v boulz) [feminine] (Russian), боулз (boulz) [masculine] (Russian), bowls sobre hierba (Spanish), çim topu (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-bowls-en-noun-oxTy0sVw Disambiguation of Bowls (game): 4 42 20 35 Disambiguation of 'precision sport': 99 1
  2. A ball used in the game of bowls Categories (topical): Bowls (game) Translations (ball for game of bowls): kuula (Finnish), boccia [feminine] (Italian), bocha [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-bowls-en-noun-Ltd5D5B8 Disambiguation of Bowls (game): 4 42 20 35 Disambiguation of 'ball for game of bowls': 12 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: carpet bowls, crown green bowls, lawn bowls

Verb

IPA: /bəʊlz/ [UK], /boʊlz/ [General-American]
Rhymes: -əʊlz Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} bowls
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bowl Tags: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Form of: bowl Categories (topical): Bowls (game)
    Sense id: en-bowls-en-verb-P9ZfEyIc Disambiguation of Bowls (game): 4 42 20 35 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 41 5 52 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 2 38 5 55 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 2 27 4 66

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.