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A bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins.

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        Uso de skittles em inglês
        1
        The relaxations of the humbler class, are fives, quoits, skittles, and ale.
        An History of Birmingham (1783)
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        They next add one or two more skittles and say, for instance:
        The Unknown Guest
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        Before long, the skittles were replaced by figures written on a blackboard.
        The Unknown Guest
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        Mr. Howard, it was anything but beer and skittles for me then.
        At Love's Cost
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        Something may be learned, we firmly believe, even from skittles and ping-pong.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914
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        I rammed in, windmillin' all round and knocking 'em down like skittles.
        Tales of Chinatown
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        DBC Pierre Forming an outlook on life isn't all beer and skittles.
        The Guardian
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        At kick-offs he's like a blond bowling ball in a skittles alley.
        The Guardian
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        Oh, no, life on The Road is not all beer and skittles.
        The Road
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        That was the most melancholy game at skittles I ever took part in.
        Successful Recitations
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        There has been no playing at skittles for me in either.
        Miscellanies
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        But it's not all beer and skittles for the small festivals.
        The Irish Times
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        He found conversation with detectives as lively as playing at skittles with bombshells.
        The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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        I can do many things, from driving engines to playing skittles.
        The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
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        My work dries up and calendar events topple like skittles.
        The Irish Times
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        Children can be gunned down for carrying skittles and their murderers can be acquitted.
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