Bowling and Throwing Games

Precision games in which a player rolls a ball or throws a dart at a target, scoring by position or by pins knocked down. Darts is thrown at a segmented board, ten-pin bowling is rolled down a lane at ten pins, and lawn bowls is delivered along a green to finish nearest a small jack. What belongs here is a sport decided by delivering an object with accuracy to a fixed target. Every sport filed in this group belongs to the Precision Sports category and has its own entry in the Sport and Games Atlas, from which a reader can follow links on to its leading athletes, its competitions and the governing bodies that set its rules.