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Bowls is an outdoor and indoor game popular
in Commonwealth countries. It has been played
in Britain since the 13th century.
The outdoor game is played on a finely cut
grassed area called a rink, with biased bowls
13cm (5in) in diameter. It is played as
either singles, pairs, triples, or fours.
The object is to get the bowl (or bowls) as
near as possible to the jack (target).
There are two popular forms: lawn bowls,
played on a flat surface, and crown green
bowls, played on a rink with undulations and
a crown at the centre of the green. This
latter version is more popular in the
Midlands and North England.
Subject by: John Denver