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Answer for the clue "Pete Weber's game ", 7 letters:
bowling

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the sport of cricket bowling is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman . A player skilled at bowling is called a bowler ; a bowler who is also a competent batsman is known as an all-rounder . Bowling the ball is distinguished ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling 2 (label en New England) candlepin bowling. 3 Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors. 4 (label en cricket) The action ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, originally "playing at bowls ," verbal noun from bowl (v.). Bowling alley is from 1550s.

Usage examples of bowling.

Because of peole dropping bowling balls onto freeways, we have fences anclosing highway overpasses.

Since then, restaurants, hotels, parks, movie theaters, stores, swimming pools, bowling alleys, and even business schools have been opened to Negroes.

The carriage was now bowling down the avenue at a trot, the greys arching their necks and stepping out handsomely.