ball game vs bowls

ball game

noun
  • Any game played with a ball. 

  • A decisive outcome in regard to some ongoing situation; game over. 

  • Affair, issue, matter, subject, story, topic. 

  • A specific contest or match between teams playing such a game, in particular a baseball game. 

  • A sport played in the Aztec and Mayan civilizations; Mesoamerican ballgame. 

bowls

noun
  • A ball used in the game of bowls 

  • 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. 

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