Lawn bowls

Lawn bowls, also called bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which players roll a ball, called a bowl, so that it finishes as close as possible to a smaller ball known as the jack or sometimes the kitty. The bowls are shaped, or biased, so that they follow a curved path when rolled, and the game is played either in teams or one against one. The Wikipedia lead says it was first played in the 13th century, and the article traces it in England certainly to the 13th century and conjecturally to the 12th. It is mostly played on a bowling green, usually of grass, though other surfaces are sometimes used, including cotula in New Zealand, and there are indoor venues and rollable carpets. A match runs either until one side reaches a set score or until a set number of ends has been played. The article also records that bowls is a core sport at every Commonwealth Games and has appeared at every edition except 1966.