BOWLS Synonyms: 142 Similar and Opposite Words

bowls 1 of 2

noun

plural of bowl

as in stadiums

a large usually roofless building for sporting events with tiers of seats for spectators a new bowl for the football team

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bowls

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verb

present tense third-person singular of bowl

as in flows

to move or proceed smoothly and readily bowling along in my spiffy new car

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as in races

to proceed or move quickly bowled through the test and was the first one to hand in the booklet

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Recent Examples of bowls

Noun

To get your own hands dirty, walk five minutes to Limón Studio – a pottery store and graphic design studio that offers friendly workshops, in English, to make cups or bowls. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026 The pasta—a hair clump of noodles in a soupy, sweetish tomato sauce—came in one of those parsimonious bowls with a small hollow in the middle and a rim as broad as Saturn’s rings. — Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026 Blown glass artisans would recreate the look in bowls and cups that would then make their way to coffee tables and kitchen display shelves. — Tessa Cooper, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2026 Shirataki noodles work well in soups, stir-fries, hot pots, cold noodle dishes, and ramen-style bowls. — Michiko Tomioka, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026 Porta platters, Emporio Sirenuse dipping bowls, classic Christofle silver, Guy Degrenne all-purpose wine glasses for wine, water, and spritzes. — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026 An employee skipped the sanitizing part of ware washing of several bowls used from the cook’s line. — Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026 The Landing, a food hall with stalls offering everything from pizza to burgers to wraps and bowls, ended up being the perfect solution for our giant group. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2026 Sprouts focuses on fresh, natural and organic foods and also offers fresh, ready-to-eat lunch options such as sushi, deli sandwiches and wellness bowls. — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026

Verb

Or head to a street with local shops and look for water bowls out front. — Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026 This summer’s menu will include items like hitsumabushi (a Donburi bowl with sliced eel or wagyu); chazuke with salmon and ikura; rice bowls with baby sardines and futomaki (a fat sushi roll). — Connie Ogle july 30, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026 Fresh corn, tomatoes, and avocado make these easy-to-pull-together dinner bowls the perfect light meal for hot summer days. — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 17 July 2026 On the corner of Potomac Street, Cannonball Deli serves sandwiches, salads, and bowls at breakfast and lunchtime. — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2026 And avoid leaving pet food bowls out overnight, as this gives mice an easy meal when the house is quiet. — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 14 June 2026 President Richard Nixon bowls at the Executive Office Building in 1971. — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 11 June 2026 The news station reported that Henderson bowls most days after school, and that his goal is to one day play in a professional bowlers league. — Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 4 June 2026 Kai is also set to offer a special lunch menu featuring sandwiches from $13 to $15, rice bowls from $16 to $19 and bento boxes starting at $15, the latter of which come with miso soup, the choice of one sushi roll and the choice of two sides. — R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bowls

Noun

Eight of the top 10 largest stadiums in the world sit on college campuses, but college teams are far more regionalized than NFL squads.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
Trains rumble behind the main stadiums, Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong, while planes approaching and departing from La Guardia Airport bring their stomach-churning roars.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

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Verb

And that overall sense of purpose flows from a production unusually well-protected by the women who truly understand this fictional world’s appeal.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
The organizations that will move fastest in 2027 will be the ones redesigning how work flows across people, processes, governance and enterprise systems.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of flows

Verb

In its breathless finale, Curry races through the mansion reconstructing every murder, flinging himself through doors and corridors while maintaining the verbal precision of a stage actor performing at double speed.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026
Finn Gomez / Getty Images Kirkwood, who races for Andretti Global, started second but took the lead on the opening lap with a daring maneuver around the outside of pole-sitter and championship leader Alex Palou in front of the National Archives.

— Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of races

Verb

There’s optimism Kansas could have an underrated defense, TCU cruises to a relative easy 30-plus points.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Aug. 2026
Traveling such vast distances between our solar system's most remote objects means New Horizons often cruises for months at a time with little to do other than passively collect data.

— Brett Tingley, Space.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of cruises

Verb

Put more simply, QBI takes into account passes, rushes, scrambles, sacks, turnovers and anything else that happens when the football is in the quarterback’s hands.

— Austin Mock, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
An already small venue has been reduced in size even further as the club rushes through expansion to reach the league minimum of 15,000 capacity by the spring.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026