Illustration of bola
variants
or bolas
plural bolas
ˈbō-ləz 
also bolases
also bolases
: a cord with weights attached to the ends for throwing at and entangling an animal
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No one has seen the seventh kind, the fearsome Night Fury, until Hiccup manages to knock one out of the sky with a homemade bola contraption.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 June 2025
Arizona has a state firearm (the Colt Single Action revolver) and a state neckwear (the bola tie).
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2024
The game is played in rounds, and each player has three bolas and must throw all three before the next player can go.
—Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2023
Meanwhile Devin and Tori land their last bola and have to drink three smoothies before continuing on, and the projectile vomiting commences.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
Bananas and Nany then sabotage Olivia and Horacio with a smoothie, but Olivia somehow cuts her finger while throwing a bola and there's blood everywhere.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
First, during a bola-throwing competition, the karabiner connecting the rope to the balls got caught on Kaiser’s finger and sliced it open.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 1 Feb. 2023
Axel Perez, his nephew, swings and sways atop the rolla bola, a platform balanced atop one or more rolling cylinders.
—Alexis Soloski Seth Caplan, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
The rules are very simple: throw your bola (two balls connected by a string) onto the ladder and try to knock down your opponents' bolas.
—Laura Wheatman Hill, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2021
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 June 2025
Arizona has a state firearm (the Colt Single Action revolver) and a state neckwear (the bola tie).
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2024
The game is played in rounds, and each player has three bolas and must throw all three before the next player can go.
—Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2023
Meanwhile Devin and Tori land their last bola and have to drink three smoothies before continuing on, and the projectile vomiting commences.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
Bananas and Nany then sabotage Olivia and Horacio with a smoothie, but Olivia somehow cuts her finger while throwing a bola and there's blood everywhere.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
First, during a bola-throwing competition, the karabiner connecting the rope to the balls got caught on Kaiser’s finger and sliced it open.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 1 Feb. 2023
Axel Perez, his nephew, swings and sways atop the rolla bola, a platform balanced atop one or more rolling cylinders.
—Alexis Soloski Seth Caplan, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
The rules are very simple: throw your bola (two balls connected by a string) onto the ladder and try to knock down your opponents' bolas.
—Laura Wheatman Hill, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2021
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“Bola.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bola. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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