Tag:sport=bowls
 sport = bowls
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Sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball  
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A sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball.
Summary
A place such as leisure=pitch/leisure=stadium/leisure=sports_centre can be marked with this tag as place where you can play lawn bowls/lawn bowling. The pitch is most typically a lawn (hence "lawn bowls"), but not always. The surface may be natural grass, or artificial turf. It can be played indoors. Includes all variations of lawn bowls including "flat-green bowls" and "crown-green bowls".
Description
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Bowls or lawn 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 (for "flat-green bowls") or convex or uneven (for "crown-green bowls"). It is normally played outdoors (although there are many indoor venues) and the outdoor surface is either natural grass, artificial turf, or cotula (in New Zealand).
How to Map
This value can be used with the sport tag on nodes 
or areas 
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For indoor bowling you might place this tag on a whole building, or use separate a node or area within the outer building area, to represent the location of the bowls pitch within the building.
Tags to indicate the type of green can also be added, if known
- bowls=crown_green
Since this is a non-physical tag it should always be combined with some other (physical) tags, eg:
Other useful combination
See Also
- sport=boules - Similar game involving stopping near the "jack", but involves throwing the balls.
- sport=10pin - 10 pin bowling. Knocking over pins.
Rendering
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Photo Examples
Lawn Bowling
Bowls match in progress at Wookey Hole
The bowling green at the Barlow Institute, Edgworth. Image scanned from slide. Photograph taken 1995 by Austen Redman.
Swifts Creek Bowls Club
Drumoak and district bowling green, Drumoak, Aberdeenshire
Merewether Bowling Club, Easter 2005
Two lawn bowls and the kitty (or jack)
Bowls in a "tra" or "hollow path". Popular is (West) Flanders, called "trabol" there.
Bolo Palma is a very popular variant of bowls played in Cantabria, north of Spain, where there is bowling alleys in almost every town.
