Or ninepins; Game in which nine wooden pins, arranged in a diamond-shaped frame at the end of an alley, are knocked down in two rolls from the other end of the alley with a wooden ball. Two or more players can compete. Skittles resembles tenpin bowling.
A smaller version called table skittles is played indoors on a table using a pivoted ball attached to a pole by a chain.An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
Kegelspiel, schon im MA verbreitetes dt. Unterhaltungsspiel, bei dem Kegel am Ende einer Kegelbahn mit Kegelkugeln umzuwerfen sind; seit Anfang des 19. Jh. auch als sportl. Wettkampf.