The Game » Glossary

Here you can find a glossary of bowlingterms sorted by alphabet. You can choose a letter of the alphabet by clicking on one of the letters in the menu below. He and his should be read as 'he and his or she and her' throughout this glossary.

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• Kegler
  The german term for a bowler.

• Kickback
  The dividers between lanes in the pit which often cause previously contacted pins to knock down other pins by providing a backboard to repel them back towards the remaining pins.

• Kingpin
  Either the first or fifth pin, depending upon which region of the country one is in.