Sentences with phrase «lawn bowling»

Before the activity: I first explained the game of lawn bowling to the class.

Other sports in the area include lawn bowls, golf, tennis and squash.

She thinks lawn bowling could be a swinging sport.

Whilst not very adventurous lawn bowling can be fun.

Guests can enjoy indoor / outdoor lawn bowls, tennis, plus the gym and health centre.

He is typical of younger players who are giving up other sports for the special rewards of lawn bowling.

Fill your garage with backyard sports items such as a croquet, badminton or lawn bowling set.

Still, a casual observer stumbling upon rows of white - clad figures bent over the grass in rapt concentration of a dark, slow - moving object could be forgiven for thinking that nothing save the players had changed in lawn bowls since Drake's time.

Both women were figure skaters — the least violent sport aside from lawn bowls — preparing to compete at the Winter Olympics.

Cavallo Point, the ideal playground for groups, offers acres of open space for lawn bowling (bocce ball), badminton, croquet, touch football or soccer.

Maui's «royals» surfed, raced their canoes, feasted at lu'au lasting for weeks, and, where the Ka'anapali Golf Courses now blanket the land,... MORE they played ulu maika, a form of lawn bowling using stones.

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After the training period, they competed in a simple lawn bowling competition — each team can bowl once, and the team whose ball was closest to the target won.

Club Banora features an 18 - hole championship golf course, Olympic size swimming pool, children's leisure pool, day / night tennis courts, lawn bowling greens and free live entertainment.

Have those fun lawn bowling tournaments.

At the same time, you won't get unless you ask, and a fun photo of the office lawn bowling tourney from one of your employee rock stars can do amazing things to help your workplace brand.

If lawn bowling is acquiring a new image, that image looks a lot like Dave and Judy Redo.

Without this 16th century innovation the game might have died and been buried with Henry VIII, who nearly killed it anyway when he banned lawn bowling because of all the gambling that was going on.

The contemporary version of lawn bowls dates back four centuries, when someone hit on the idea of using a lopsided bowl instead of a round one, reasoning that «a little altering of the one side maketh the bowl to run biasse waies.»

«I used to play a lot of tennis,» he says, «but one day I was watching my father practice lawn bowling.

Lawn bowlers Kay Moran, Stacey McDougall and Caroline Brown win Scotland's first women's triples medal with silver behind Australia.

And it was a packed start to a busy day of lawn bowls action with women's singles and men's triples matches getting underway for the home nations.

The aforementioned Men with Brooms has already spoofed the breaking of a traditional game with flashy sportsmanship, and there has even been a comedy about lawn bowling, if you can believe it, made in Australia in 2002, Crackerjack.

[Thanks to their prior learning, students spotted that the initial lawn bowler code, delivering a pushing motion to the arm, included values for how much force to apply.

A magnificent 18 hole golf course, lawn bowling rinks and all weather tennis courts are available in Bermagui.

The Rec Club boasts superb tennis facilities, as well as lawn bowls, a state - of - the art gymnasium, pool, spa and sauna.

Of course, it seems to be a bit of a slow news day: the headline on page 1 reads «Game over: Lawn bowlers told to leave «valuable» spot»... [more]

In lawn bowls the shortest distance between two points is seldom a straight line.

Mantra Lorne also offers a range of outdoor activities including lawn bowls, croquet, tennis and a putting green or just take a gentle stroll along the beach to Lorne Pier.

Watch 5 movies in a row, go and play lawn bowls, play golf for the first time, kick a soccer ball with the kid, go shopping for 2 hours, and buy a $ 1 item.

Facilities within the park include souvenir shops, small grocery stores, a gas station, a laundromat, restaurants, hotels and motels, rental cabins, camp grounds, three marinas, many beaches, picnic areas, tennis courts and lawn bowling greens.

With more than 85 activities inside this 1,200 - acre park, there's no shortage of things to do: from lawn bowling to riding a miniature railroad to visiting one of 17 museums to enjoying a concert to exploring the world - famous San Diego Zoo.

It seems the folks at National Lampoon found an independent film they consider to be just lowbrow enough for them to buy out the rights to in Blackball, an over-the-top comedy surrounding the game of lawn bowling in the UK.

It wasn't quite the lawn bowls set, but the groups of young people, the meandering older couples, the wild - eyed men of the street, even the spivs and small time tough guys, were all singularly non-threatening.

71 teams from around the world will participate in sports like netball, rugby, lawn bowls and boxing.

We have Ozil Sanches who when we are loosing there heads go down you don't see that with West Ham, even the coach gets in on the game, Wenger and even Boulds are so laid back they look as if there watching a game of lawn bowls.

Richard Folkins, at 45 a stripling in the vintage world of lawn bowling, skipped his Los Angeles team to victory in the triples and rinks (four - man bowls) in Seattle during the sport's first world com - petition since 1939.

There are softball diamonds, lawn bowls and a putting green in the five - acre park in which the clubhouse stands.

Dave, 39, comes from a lawn bowling family but didn't take any interest in the game until after he left college.

Even if every club in the U.S. boosted its membership by 100 %, that would only bring the lawn bowling population to 20,000 — still a lot of bowlers away from the 50,000 in New Zealand, the 60,000 in South Africa, the 500,000 in Australia or the 400,000 in the British Isles.

Both he and Judy, 37, enjoyed other sports before they took up lawn bowls.

She became a lawn bowler while she was watching a match in Central Park.

Nevertheless, there are disturbances within the once tranquil and untrammeled world of lawn bowls: young blood is mixing with old, and women are beginning to take the measure of the men.

Nowadays it is not betting people, but those who like chess problems and physics who gravitate to lawn bowls.

Quite obviously, then, lawn bowling is ready to prove that it is not so firmly wedded to tradition that it can not adapt to the 20th century.

I «drather watch the WNBA or lawn bowling.

There is also a home nations showdown in the lawn bowls with England taking on Wales in the men's fours bronze medal match while the women's rugby sevens also gets underway.

The wood quality of this lawn bowling set will keep your kids active for years.

«I «m concerned about the litter, but at the same time, we better not let this descend into an attack on this club first and then attacks on ethnic soccer clubs, lawn bowling and other activities, «said Lyman.