Tenpins

a parlor game. Ten wooden pins are set up in the form of a triangle in ranks of four, three, two, and one, with the apex toward the player who rolls a ball across the floor with the object of knocking down as many of the pins as possible. To knock down all the pins is "to make a strike." When played in a regularly constructed alley, the game is usually called bowls. See Skittles; Bowling