Crossword clues for bocce
bocce
- Italian bowling ball
- Lawn bowling, Italian style
- Lawn ball game
- Variety of lawn bowling
- Lawn bowling
- Game played on a 90-foot-long court
- Bologna ball game
- Park game from Italy
- Outdoor bowling game
- Lawn sport
- Kin of bowling
- Italian lawn bowls
- Game with eight large balls and one small one
- Game with a 90-foot x 13.1-foot court
- Game often played with wooden balls
- Bowling, Italian-style
- Ball-rolling lawn game
- Italian ball game
- Italian bowling game
- Game with wooden balls
- Dirt-court game
- Bowling game variety
- Kind of ball
- Ball game played on lawns
- Rolling game
- Ball-rolling game
- Lawn game that's in the Special Olympics
- Lawn sport that requires balls
- Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court)
- Picnic game
- Italian lawn game
- Lawn bowling game
- Italian lawn bowling
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Italian bocce "(wooden) balls," plural of boccia, which is related to French bosse "bump, hump," perhaps from a Germanic source.
Wiktionary
n. (context sports English) A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court
WordNet
Wikipedia
, sometimes anglicized as bocci, is a ball sport belonging to the boules family, closely related to British bowls and French , with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire. Developed into its present form in Italy (where it is called , the plural of the Italian word which means 'bowl' in the sport sense), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia, North America, and South America (where it is known as , or (' Criollo balls') in Venezuela, in Brazil). Bocce was initially played among the Italian migrants but has slowly become more popular with their descendants and the wider community.
The sport is also very popular on the eastern side of the Adriatic, especially in Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the sport is known in Serbo-Croatian as ('playing ') or (colloquially also ). In Slovenia the sport is known as or colloquially 'playing ', or (from Italian and Venetian , meaning 'balls', respectively).
Bocce is an electronic rock band from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Usage examples of "bocce".
Then I went the other way, uphill past where my own car was parked to the bocce ball courts.
It may sound simplistic when you break it down to its basics, but there is a symmetry and tradition to bocce that makes it fascinating.
But I let her prod me up and lead me out of the bocce courts and down toward the beach.
Van Ness and watched the bocce players for a while, then came back home and called Kerry.
The backyard fared little better, home to a kiln, a crucible furnace, an annealing oven, and three or four incomplete sets of bocce balls that made interesting dents in the garden of weeds.
Below us, a cluster of old men played bocce on the smoothly raked gravel between the set of tracks.
I saw a dedicated game of bocce, some chess boards, some people merely sitting, moving their chairs to follow the warm December sun.
Victorian farmhouse setting, a large selection of wines to sip and buy, estate-grown organic produce, homemade bread, and even a bocce ball court.
The men played bocce out in the yard, and the women exchanged recipes and home remedies and hair-raising tales of childbirth.
Victorian farmhouse setting, a large selection of wines to sip and buy, estate-grown organic produce, homemade bread, and even a bocce ball court.
Then I went the other way, uphill past where my own car was parked to the bocce ball courts.
Peter and Paul's between bocce ball games with old cronies) Steve and Art had picked for their last dinner before Art left for overseas, Steve soon to follow.
Bocce, if you don't know the game, is mostly like lawn bowling and a little like shuffleboard.
We walked down Fifth Avenue, arms linked, underneath the Washington Square Memorial Arch and through Little Italy where shirtless men played bocce in the streets.