How do you name this sport? The ball Is it just “ball”? Bowl? Or boccia as italian?
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Yes, it’s a boule. A bowl [noun, pronounced /bəʊl/ in British English*] is an item of table crockery to hold liquids for serving or eating.
Bowling [noun] is similar to boules in that balls are rolled [but not thrown] at a target.
*you can listen to both American and RP British pronunciation on www.dictionary.cambridge.org or www.macmillandictionary.com
The official name for boules is pétanque.
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In England it’s known as ‘boules’ [pronounced ‘bool’ ] as in French, from where it comes.
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Where I grew up in Australia we called this game Bocce (pronounced boch-ee) and the balls were simply "Bocce Balls"
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In America, we call this sport bocci-ball (but we say it like "botcheeee").
We might also call the ball a "bocci ball" or just a ball.
This could vary in different parts of the country, but that is what we called it in the Northeast.
Good luck!
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In the United States we think of it as an Italian sport played mostly by Italian-Americans. We spell it "bocce," we pronounce it "BAH-chee." I don't know any special name for the balls; I think they are just "bocce balls," like "tennis balls" or "golf balls" or "croquet balls" or "soccer balls."
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