rolled strikes

English translation: knock all pins down with first ball

12:12 Aug 10, 2005

English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Sports / Fitness / Recreation

English term or phrase: rolled strikes

Please tell me what does mean "rolled strikes"?
We ask them all to bowl three games, and as they bowl, we video tape each person. Then, we ask that the entire group practice bowling for the next six months in order to improve their scores. However,to assist them, we will show them video tape of the three games we filmed. For half the group, we show them only video footage of when they rolled strikes,or knocked all the pins down.

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Selected answer:knock all pins down with first ball

Explanation:
if you need two balls to knock them all down, it's called a spare

roll a strike = score a strike, i.e. knock down all 10 pins with first ball

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Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
Local time: 10:05

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knock all pins down with first ball

Cilian O'Tuama

bowled strikes

Michael Fratus

2 +1

Background: scoring

Kim Metzger

Discussion entries: 1

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3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +11

knock all pins down with first ball

Explanation:
if you need two balls to knock them all down, it's called a spare

roll a strike = score a strike, i.e. knock down all 10 pins with first ball

Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
Local time: 10:05
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 15

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Background: scoring

Explanation:
Strike
When the bowler knocks down all ten pins with the first delivery of the ball it is called a strike. Clearly your score goes up by ten, but like a spare, you get a bonus - your next two deliveries are added to the score. Stringing strikes together will raise your score dramatically (See turkey). Marked on the scoresheet with an "X".

Spare
Getting all ten pins down with one ball is not as easy as it seems! So, if you leave one or more pins standing after your first delivery, you get a second chance to knock all the pins down, this is your "spare" shot. If you knock all remaining pins down on the second shot you have made your spare. A spare is marked on the scoresheet with a "/". It takes skill to consistently make spares and the scoring system rewards you by adding in the pins from the next ball into the current frame. See also split.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kennmelvin/Scorer2....

Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 02:05
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 20

3 hrs confidence:

bowled strikes

Explanation:
"rolled" refers literally to the action of the ball. More common is to say they "bowled a strike" or "bowled strikes."

Michael Fratus
United States
Local time: 03:05
Native speaker of:

English

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