Brush up on your bowling lingo below:
- Candlepin Bowling: A variation of bowling that’s played with tall, candle-stick looking pins and a handheld-sized ball.
- Duckpin Bowling: Another variation of bowling played with short, wide pins and a handheld-sized ball that does not have holes.
- Foul Line: The line that separates the approach from the beginning of the lane.
- Frame: A game of bowling is divided into 10 frames. In each frame, there are two chances to knock down all 10 pins. The only exception is the 10th frame, where a bowler gets an additional (third) chance if they bowled a strike or spare on their first two chances.
- Open Frame: A frame without a strike or spare. All 10 pins were not knocked down, but your turn is over.
- Spare: To knock down the remaining pins left after the first ball with your second ball in the same frame.
- Strike Dance: The celebratory dance seen when a bowler bowls a strike.
- No-Tap: A type of bowling game where knocking down 9 pins, instead of 10, counts as a strike.
- Deuce: A type of game where the bowler scores 200 points or more.
- Turkey: Three consecutive strikes in a row.
300 Game: Occurs when a bowler bowls a strike on every possible frame, otherwise known as a “perfect game."