Find the best bowling lessons and bowling practice buddy at HeyKiki and learn how to bowl. Bowling is a sport in which players score points by hitting bowling pins with a heavy plastic bowling ball, which is rolled towards the pins across a flat surface, or bowling lane. Though primitive forms of bowling date back as far as Ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire, bowling with the rules as we know it today was established in 1895 in New York. Though people do compete professionally in the sport, bowling remains a popular recreational activity with people of all ages in America today, and congregating at bowling alleys a common social activity.