Bocce is traditionally played on natural soil and asphalt courts 27.5 meters in length and 2.5 to 4 meters wide. Bocce balls can be made of metal or plastic. Bocce balls are spherical and have no inbuilt bias. A match is started by a randomly chosen side being given the opportunity to throw a smaller ball, the jack, from one end of the court into a zone 5 meters in length, ending 2.5 meters from the far end of the court. If the first team misses twice, the other team is awarded the opportunity to place the jack anywhere they choose within the prescribed zone.
Bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a pitch which may be flat or convex or uneven. It is normally played outdoors although there are some indoor venues and the surface is either natural grass, artificial turf.
Lawn bowls is usually played on a large, rectangular, precisely leveled and manicured grass or synthetic surface known as a bowling green which is divided into parallel playing strips called rinks. Once it has come to rest, the jack is aligned to the center of the rink and the players take turns to roll their bowls from the mat towards the jack and thereby build up the "head".
A bowl may curve outside the rink boundary on its path, but must come to rest within the rink boundary to remain in play. Bowls falling into the ditch are dead and removed from play.
In nine pin bowling a player brings a plastic or wooden ball that is rolled down an alley to nine pins. The "bowling ball" is smaller and lighter than in ten-pin bowling, and the ball may have two or no finger holes. Being smaller, the ball will actually roll, rather than slide, down of the lane distance.The nine pins are placed in a diamond shape on the alley. Nine-pins was the most popular form of bowling in much of the United States from colonial times until the early nineteenth century, when it was outlawed in many areas and replaced by ten-pins.
Ten-pin bowling is a competitive sport in which a player rolls a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many pins as possible. In the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, the game is known as just "Bowling".
Indoor bowls is played on strips of replica green of a comparable length to lawn bowls, it can be played by all ages including men, women, juniors and seniors. People of all abilities can play including wheelchair users and blind bowlers.
How is Indoor Bowls Played?
- A full-size indoor bowls rink is 40 m long and 100 m wide.
- The game can be played in singles, doubles, triples and there are also four player games.
- The game starts with the toss of a coin and the lead player rolls the jack which is moved to the center of the rink.
How is it Scored?
In most games the winner is declared the first player to score 21 points or the one that gets the highest points after 18 or 21.
Bowling refers to a series of sports or leisure activities in which a player rolls or throws a bowling ball. The indoor version of bowling is often played on a flat wooden or other synthetic surface, while outdoor bowling the surface may be grass, gravel or a synthetic surface.
The most common types of indoor bowling include
- ten-pin,
- nine-pin,
- candlepin,
- duckpin and
- five-pin bowling,
while in outdoor bowling,
- bowls,
- bocce,
- petanque and
- boules are popular
