Bowler's back-row target

Usage examples of tenpin.

Both are art, just as billiards and pool and duckpins and tenpins are all valid sports, and both accomplish different and equally important ends.

You jump then, inside that firetailed tenpin they ride you down in, but the straps keep you from making a fool of yourself.

In the earlier dreams, I contented myself with exploring these incredible cities, attempting to measure their angles -- so utterly dissimilar to anything I had ever learned from Professor Wogglebug's geometry pills -- and occasionally trying to lay out baseball diamonds and football fields for the perpetually unseen inhabitants, or to set up curiously-shaped stones in the formation of tenpins, which invariably toppled down because of the peculiar tilt of the ground long before I could bowl them over with the black cinder-like spheroids that sometimes lay about.