The sport we know as ten-pin bowling is not necessarily called by the same name around the world. Here are the names for ten-pin bowling in many of the languages of the world. The names are taken from the Wikipedia page for ten-pin bowling in each of these languages. You will notice that many of the sport names are mostly just 'bowling' or something similar.
Name by Language
Language | Name for the sport of ten-pin bowling |
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Arabic | بولينج بعشرة دبابيس |
Armenian | Բոուլինգ |
Asturian | Bowling |
Bulgarian | Боулинг |
Cantonese | 十樽保齡 |
Chinese | 保齡球 |
Czech | Bowling |
Danish | Bowling |
Dutch | Bowlen |
English | Ten-pin bowling |
Esperanto | Bovlingo |
Faroese | Bowling |
Finnish | Keilailu |
French | Bowling |
Galician | Birlos |
Georgian | ბოულინგი |
German | Bowling |
Haitian | Bolin |
Hebrew | כדורת |
Hungarian | Bowling |
Indonesian | Boling |
Italian | Bowling |
Japanese | ボウリング |
Javanese | Boling |
Korean | 볼링 |
Latvian | Boulings |
Malay | Boling sepuluh pin |
Minangkabau | Boling |
Norwegian | Bowling |
Norwegian | Bowling |
Polish | Bowling |
Portuguese | Boliche |
Romanian | Bowling |
Russian | Боулинг |
Serbian | Kuglanje na deset čunjeva |
Silesian | Kryngle |
Slovak | Bowling |
Sorani Kurdish | بۆڵینگ |
Spanish | Bowling |
Sundanese | Boling |
Swedish | Bowling |
Tamil | பத்துப்பின் பௌலிங் |
Thai | โบว์ลิ่ง |
Ukrainian | Боулінг |
Vietnamese | Bowling |
Welsh | Bowlio deg |