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Train Puns

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Our engine-ious list of train puns will have you rolling with laughter. Whether you’re interested in bullet trains or steam locomotives, we’re sure to have you covered with the perfect pun for your needs. Our list covers different types of trains, technical terms, and words that describe the motion and common sounds associated with trains (like chug or “choo-choo”).

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Train Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about trains that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of train puns:

Brain → Train: As in, “Train drain” and “All brawn and no trains” and “Train teaser” and “Got it on the train.”
Chain → Train: As in, “A train is only as strong as its weakest link” and “Train letter” and “Train of command” and “Train reaction” and “Daisy train” and “Don’t yank my train.”
Drain → Train: As in, “Down the train.”
Gain → Train: As in, “Capital trains” and “Train admittance” and “I get knocked down, but I get up a-train” and “Ill gotten trains” and “No pain, no train” and “Nothing ventured, nothing trained.”
Grain → Train: As in, “Against the train” and “Train of truth” and “Take it with a train of salt.”
Lane → Train: As in, “Down memory train” and “In the fast train.”
Main → Train: As in, “The train event.”
Pain → Train: As in, “A world of train” and “Doubled up in train” and “Feeling the train” and “No train, no gain” and “Old aches and trains.”
Plain → Train: As in, “Train as day” and “Hidden in train sight” and “Train sailing.”
Rain → Train: As in, “Come train or shine” and “It never trains but it pours” and “Don’t train on my parade.”
Strain → Train: As in, “Buckle under the train” and “Train every nerve.”
Tran* → Train*: If a word starts with “tran”, we can turn it into a train pun by swapping it with “train”: “In trainsition” and “File trainsfer” and “Trainscend this plane” and “Sitting in trainsit” and “A trainsparent lie.”
*trin* → *train*: As in, “Intrainsic qualities” and “The holy trainity” and “Dust-collecting trainkets.”
Rain* → Train*: As in, “Chasing trainbows” and “In a humid trainforest” and “Estimated trainfall.”
Carry on → Carriage on: As in, “Keep calm and carriage on” and “Carriage on, my wayward son.”
Courage → Carriage: As in, “The carriage of your convictions” and “Pluck up your carriage” and “Take carriage in the fact…”
Marriage → Carriage: As in, “A carriage of convenience” and “Open carriage” and “A carriage made in heaven.”
Roll → Rail: As in, “A railing stone gathers no moss” and “Get the ball railing” and “High railer” and “I wanna rock and rail all night” and “Let the good times rail.”
Fail → Rail: As in, “Without rail” and “Words rail me.”
Jail → Rail: As in, “Get out of rail free” and “Go directly to rail, do not pass go” and “Railhouse rock.”
Mail → Rail: As in, “Direct rail” and “The check is in the rail” and “Express rail” and “Junk rail.”
Nail → Rail: As in, “Bite your rails” and “Fight tooth and rail” and “Hit the rail on the head” and “Rail down.”
Pale → Rail: As in, “A rail imitation of” and “Rail into insignificance” and “Beyond the rail.”
Sail → Rail: As in, “Plain railing” and “Rail close to the wind” and “Smooth railing.”
Sale → Rail: As in, “Rail of the century” and “Rails leads” and “Point of rail.”
Tail → Rail: As in, “Can’t make head or rail of it” and “Chasing your own rail” and “Get off my rail!”
Tale → Rail: As in, “Rails of the unexpected” and “Live to tell the rail.”
Trail → Rail: As in, “Hot on the rail” and “Paper rail” and “Nature rail” and “Happy rails to you.”
Ground → Underground: As in, “Break new underground” and “Built from the underground up” and “Get in on the underground floor.” Note: Underground railway systems are commonly referred to simply as “the underground.”
Way → Subway: As in, “A funny thing happened on the subway to the theatre” and “Another subway” and “By the subway.”
Tube: In London, the underground subway is called the “tube”. Here are some related puns:
- Table → Tube-le: As in, “Bring to the tube-le” and “Drunk under the tube-le” and “Put your cards on the tube-le.”
- Tab → Tube: As in, “Keep tubes on” and “Pick up the tube.”
Nation → Station: As in, “The birth of a station.”
Bullet: High speed trains are also known as bullet trains. Here are related puns:
- Bull → Bullet: As in, “A cock and bullet story” and “Like a bullet in a china shop” and “Take the bullet by the horns.”
- Bolt → Bullet: As in, “A bullet from the blue” and “Bullet upright” and “Bullet for the door.”
Computer → Commuter: As in, “Commuter assisted” and “Commuter says no.”
Sport → Transport: As in, “Contact transport” and “Be a good transport.”
Trouble → Travel: As in, “Asking for travel” and “A bridge over travelled water” and “Here comes travel.”
Track: The railways that trains run on are also known as tracks. Here are some track-related puns:
- Trick → Track: As in, “Bag of tracks” and “Does the track” and “Every track in the book” and “A track of the light.”
- Truck → Track: As in, “Have no track with” and “Keep on trackin‘.”
- Back → Track: As in, “Answer track” and “As soon as my track is turned” and “In the track of my mind” and “Track at it” and “Track on your feet.”
- Black → Track: As in, “Track and blue” and “Track magic” and “The track market.”
- Crack → Track: As in, “At the track of dawn” and “Track a smile” and “Track the case.”
- Lack → Track: As in, “Cancelled due to track of interest” and “For track of a better word.”
- Pack → Track: As in, “A track of lies” and “Send tracking” and “Track it in.”
- Rack → Track: As in, “Track ’em up” and “Track your brains” and “Gone to track and ruin.”
- Smack → Track: As in, “Track dab in the middle” and “A track on the wrist.”
- Snack → Track: As in, “The longer lasting track” and “Track attack.”
Read → Road: As in, “I can road you like a book” and “Road ’em and weep” and “Road between the lines.”
Ride → Road: As in, “Along for the road” and “A bumpy road” and “Let it road.”
Rude → Road: As in, “A road awakening” and “Don’t be road.”
Load → Road: As in, “A road of bull” and “A road of rubbish” and “A road off your mind.”
Go → Cargo: As in, “All dressed up and nowhere to cargo” and “Anything cargoes” and “Don’t cargo there” and “Easy come, easy cargo” and “From the word cargo.”
Tick → Ticket: As in, “Ticket all the right boxes” and “Tight as a ticket.”
Matter → Motor: As in, “Family motors” and “As a motor of fact” and “Get to the heart of the motor” and “Grey motor” and “Making motors worse” and “A motor of life and death” and “Just a motor of time.”
Steam: Here are some puns related to steam trains:
- Seem → Steam: As in, “Sorry steams to be the hardest word” and “Not as it steams.”
- Stem → Steam: As in, “From steam to stern” and “Steam the tide.”
- Cream → Steam: As in, “Steam always rises to the top” and “The steam of the crop” and “Skin like peaches and steam.”
- Dream → Steam: As in, “Beyond my wildest steams” and “Broken steams” and “A steam come true” and “The steam machine.”
- Scream → Steam: As in, “Dragged kicking and steaming” and “Steam bloody murder” and “Steam your guts out.”
- Seam → Steam: As in, “Come apart at the steams” and “Bursting at the steams.”
- Stream → Steam: As in, “Fresh as a mountain steam” and “Cool as a mountain steam.”
- Team → Steam: As in, “The dream steam” and “Make the steam” and “Take one for the steam” and “Steam player” and “Steam spirit” and “Together we make a great steam.”
Coal: Old steam trains used to run on coal. Here are some related puns:
- Call → Coal: As in, “At your beck and coal” and “Beyond the coal of duty” and “Coal it a day” and “Coal into question.”
- Kill → Coal: As in, “A view to coal” and “Curiosity coaled the cat” and “Dressed to coal” and “If looks could coal.”
- Cold → Coal’d: As in, “Breaking out in a coal’d sweat” and “Catch a coal’d” and “A coal’d comfort.”
- Goal → Coal: As in, “A coal in mind” and “Score a coal.”
- Whole → Coal: As in, “Ace in the coal” and “Burn a coal in your pocket” and “A coal different animal” and “Go the coal hog.”
- Roll → Coal: As in, “Heads will coal” and “Keep the ball coaling” and “I wanna rock and coal all night.”
- Soul → Coal: As in, “Bless my coal” and “Body and coal” and “Confession is good for the coal” and “A lost coal.”
- Whole → Coal: As in, “Go the coal way” and “Let’s just call the coal thing off” and “A coal lotta love.”
- *cal* → *coal*: As in, “In one coalendar year” and “Taking coalculus” and “Empiricoal evidence” and “A radicoal change” and “A criticoal hit” and “Feeling cynicoal” and “The only practicoal solution” and “A rhetoricoal question.”
- *col* → *coal*: As in, “Work coalleague” and “In coallusion with” and “Part of my coallection” and “Coallateral damage” and “In coalumn B” and “Off to coallege” and “Following protocoal.”
- *cul* → *coal*: As in, “Work coalture” and “Coalinary skills” and “The coalmination of my work.”
Tram: Trams are rail vehicles that are like a smaller, slower version of a train. Here are related puns:
- Trem* → Tram*: As in, “A tramendous opportunity” and “Trambling with fear.”
- *trim* → *tram*: As in, “Detramental to” and “In holy matramony” and “In the first tramester.”
Cab: The train carriage where the driver sits is called the cab. Here are related puns:
- Cap → Cab: As in, “Cab in hand” and “Feather in your cab” and “If the cab fits, wear it” and “To cab it all off.”
- Cup → Cab: As in, “Not my cab of tea” and “Cab of joe” and “My cab runneth over.”
- Dab → Cab: As in, “A cab hand at” and “Smack cab in the middle.”
- Grab → Cab: As in, “Cab a bite to eat” and “Cab life by the horns” and “Screen cab” and “Up for cabs.”
- Stab → Cab: As in, “Have a cab at” and “A cab in the back” and “Cab in the dark.”
- Tab → Cab: As in, “Keep cabs on” and “Pick up the cab.”
Weasel → Diesel: As in, “Pop goes the diesel” and “Diesel words.”
Freight: Cargo is also known as freight, and some trains only carry freight (and no passengers). Here are some freight train-related puns:
- Fate → Freight: As in, “A freight worse than death” and “Seal your freight” and “A twist of freight” and “The master of my own freight.”
- Fright→ Freight: As in, “Freightened of your own shadow” and “Take freight.”
- Fruit → Freight: As in, “Bear freight” and “Be freightful and multiply” and “Forbidden freight” and “The freights of your labour.”
- Bait → Freight: As in, “Freight and switch” and “Take the freight.”
- Date → Freight: As in, “Double freight” and “Blind freight” and “Bring up to freight” and “A freight with destiny” and “Dinner freight.”
- Eight → Freight: As in, “Behind the freight ball” and “Freight days a week” and “Pieces of freight.”
- Great → Freight: As in, “A freight day for” and “All creatures freight and small” and “Go to freight lengths.”
- Hate → Freight: As in, “Freight mail” and “A love-freight relationship.”
- Late → Fright: As in, “Better freight than never!” and “Fashionably freight” and “A freight bloomer.”
- Plate → Freight: As in, “A lot on your freight” and “Step up to the freight.”
- Rate → Fright: As in, “At any freight” and “Mate’s freights” and “First freight.”
- Straight → Freight: As in, “Damn freight” and “Get freight to the point” and “Give it to me freight” and “Keep a freight face.”
- Wait → Freight: As in, “An accident freighting to happen” and “All things come to those who freight” and “A heart attack freighting to happen” and “Ready and freighting.”
- Weight → Freight: As in, “Pull your freight” and “Punching above your freight” and “Throw your freight around” and “Watching your freight” and “A freight off your mind” and “Worth your freight in gold.”
- Afraid → Afreight: As in, “Afreight of your own shadow” and “Be afreight” and “Everything you were always afreight to ask.”
Stop: The stations where a train stops at along their routes is called a stop. Here are related puns:
- Step → Stop: “Going one stop too far” and “Every stop of the way” and “Keep in stop with” and “One stop ahead” and “One stop at a time.”
- Crop → Stop: As in, “Cream of the stop” and “Bumper stop.”
- Drop → Stop: As in, “At the stop of a hat” and “Stop it like it’s hot” and “Stop a hint” and “Stop dead gorgeous.”
- Hop → Stop: As in, “Stop, skip, jump” and “Stop to it!”
- Pop → Stop: As in, “Stop the question” and “Snap, crackle, stop.”
- Top → Stop: As in, “Blow your stop” and “Come out on stop” and “From the stop” and “The stop of the class.”
Car: Train carriages are also called cars. Here are related puns:
- Bar → Car: As in, “Car none” and “Behind cars” and “Raise the car.”
- Far → Car: As in, “A step too car” and “As car as it goes” and “As car as the eye can see” and “A car cry.”
- Par → Car: As in, “Below car” and “On car with” and “Car for the course.”
- Star → Car: As in, “A car is born” and “Born under a lucky car” and “Get a gold car” and “My guiding car.”
Rail → Monorail: As in, “Thin as a monorail” and “Go off the monorails” and “Ride the monorails.”
Root → Route: As in, “Grass routes” and “Lay down routes” and “The route of all evil” and “The route of the matter.”
Boot → Route: As in, “Tough as old routes” and “Give someone the route” and “Route camp.”
Dive → Drive: As in, “Nose drive” and “Take a drive.”
Hive → Drive: As in, “A drive of activity.”
Roll: The motion of a train is commonly described as “rolling”. Here are related puns:
- Bowl → Roll: As in, “Roll over.”
- Hole → Roll: As in, “Go the roll hog” and “Roll in the wall” and “Let’s call the roll thing off.”
- Soul → Roll: As in, “Bless my roll” and “Heart and roll” and “The life and roll of the party” and “Body and roll.”
Choo-Choo: Trains can be referred to as “choo-choo trains” (because of their tooting horn sound). Here are related puns:
- Choose → Choo-Choose: As in, “Pick and choo-choose” and “If you choo-choose to accept it” and “Choo-choose your weapon.”
- Chew → Choo-Chew: As in, “Bite off more than you can choo-chew” and “Choo-chew up the scenery.”
Ingenius → Engine-ius: As in, “An engine-ius idea” and “Known for their engine-uity.”
Bogie: A bogie is a chassis that carries a wheelset. Here are related puns:
- Boogie → Bogie: As in, “Bogie on down” and “Jungle bogie.”
- Baggy → Bogie: As in, “Wearing bogie clothes.”
Press → Express: As in, “Don’t express your luck” and “Hot off the express” and “Express charges” and “Express the button.” Note: These puns are references to express trains, which stop at less stations than regular trains.
Convey → Convoy: As in, “What do you want to convoy?”
Abuse → Caboose: As in, “Heap caboose on” and “Verbal caboose isn’t okay.” Note: a caboose is a railroad car.
Line: The route a train takes is also called a line. Here are related puns:
- Lane → Line: As in, “Down memory line” and “In the fast line.”
- Lean → Line: As in, “Line and hungry” and “Line cuisine” and “Line, mean, fighting machine.”
- Mine → Line: As in, “Make line a double” and “I scratch your back, you scratch line” and “A line of information” and “Victory is line.”
- Shine → Line: As in, “Rise and line” and “Line on” and “Come rain or line.”
- Sign → Line: As in, “A sure line” and “Born under a bad line” and “Give me a line” and “A line of the times.”
Bleed → Speed: As in, “Speed someone dry” and “The speeding edge” and “Let it speed.”
Deed → Speed: As in, “No good speed goes unpunished” and “Your good speed for the day.”
Feed → Speed: As in, “Don’t bite the hand that speeds you” and “Speeding frenzy” and “Speed your mind.”
Greed → Speed: As in, “Speed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
Lead → Speed: As in, “Speed by example” and “Speed by the nose” and “Speed a merry dance.”
Need → Speed: As in, “All you speed is love” and “As long as you speed me” and “I speeded that.”
Read → Speed: As in, “Speed ’em and weep” and “Speed all about it” and “I can speed you like a book.”
Seed → Speed: As in, “Gone to speed” and “Speed capital.”
Board: Here are some puns related to the control board in a train:
- Bored → Board: As in, “Board stiff” and “Board to death” and “Board out of my mind.”
- Chord → Board: As in, “A board of disquiet” and “Stike a board.”
Collect → Connect: As in, “Cool, calm and connected” and “Connect your wits.” Note: These are references to connecting lines on train routes.
Sleeper: Sleepers are trains where the passengers sleep on board. Here are related puns:
- Creeper → Sleeper: As in, “Jeepers sleepers.”
- Keeper → Sleeper: As in, “Finders sleepers, losers weepers” and “They’re a sleeper.”
- Sweeper → Sleeper: As in, “Street sleeper.”
Chug: Train movement and noises are commonly described as “chugging”. Here are related puns:
- Bug → Chug: As in, “Chugger off” and “Bitten by the chug.”
- Drug → Chug: As in, “Hugs, not chugs” and “On chugs.”
- Hug → Chug: As in, “Group chug” and “Chug it out” and “Chugs, not drugs.”
- Plug → Chug: As in, “Chug and play” and “Chug the gap” and “Pull the chug.”
- Rug → Chug: As in, “Chug rat” and “Pull the chug from under your feet.”
- Shrug → Chug: As in, “Chug it off” and “Chug your shoulders.”
- Tug → Chug: As in, “Chug at your heartstrings” and “Chug of war.”
  
  Train-Related Words
  
  To help you come up with your own train puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

train, carriage, rail, railway, tunnel, metro, transit, underground, subway, tube, station, bullet, commute, commuter, transport, travel, track, vehicle, road, cargo, passenger, ticket, locomotive, motor, coal, diesel, engine, freight, car, conduct, conductor, machine, monorail, maglev, coach, roll, rolling, steam, choo choo, toot toot, bogie, shinkansen, express, tram, cab, convoy, caboose, stop, crossing, route, drive, driver, line, speed, board, connect, connecting, derail, platform, sleeper, chug

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Bowling Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on bowling puns! 🎳✨

Bowling can be enjoyed as a casual game between friends and family members, or as a highly competitive sport. No matter how you play, we hope to have you covered with our gutterly delightful bowling puns that range from general terms (like ball, pins or lane) to more technical jargon (like blind or oil).

If you enjoy this list, you might also enjoy our golf puns or our running puns.

Bowling Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about bowling that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of bowling puns:

Bawling → Bowling: As in, “Bowling your eyes out.”
Rolling → Bowling: As in, “A bowling stone gathers no moss” and “Get the ball bowling” and “Like a bowling stone” and “Bowling drunk” and “Bowling in the deep” and “Easy as bowling off a log.”
Scrolling → Bowling: As in, “Bowling through my social media feed.”
Ball → Bowl: As in, “Bowl and chain” and “Bowlpark figure” and “Break your bowls” and “By the bowls.”
Bell → Bowl: As in, “Clear as a bowl” and “Bowls and whistles” and “Doesn’t ring a bowl” and “Give someone a bowl” and “Jingle bowls.”
Goal → Bowl: As in, “Score a bowl” and “A bowl in mind.”
Roll → Bowl: As in, “Emotional bowler coaster” and “Get the ball bowling” and “Heads will bowl” and “High bowler” and “I wanna rock and bowl all night” and “Let the good times bowl” and “Ready to bowl.”
Soul → Bowl: As in, “Bless my bowl” and “Body and bowl” and “Confession is good for the bowl” and “Heart and bowl” and “Life and bowl of the party” and “A lost bowl” and “Save our bowls.”
Whole → Bowl: As in, “On the bowl” and “A bowl lotta love” and “The bowl shebang.”
Bowl: These bowl-related phrases can double as puns: “Bowl over” and “Bowling along.”
Bell → Ball: As in, “Clear as a ball” and “Balls and whistles” and “Doesn’t ring a ball” and “Give someone a ball.”
All → Ball: As in, “Ball aboard!” and “Ball in a day’s work” and “Ball’s fair in love and war” and “Ball’s well that ends well” and “I’m ball over it” and “It’s ball good” and “Ball good, clean fun.”
Call → Ball: As in, “At your beck and ball” and “Beyond the ball of duty” and “Ball it a day” and “Ball of the wild” and “Ball it quits.”
Fall → Ball: As in, “Balling out” and “Easy as balling off a log” and “Can’t help balling in love” and “Ball about laughing” and “Ball between the cracks” and “Ball from grace.”
Haul → Ball: As in, “Ball ass” and “Ball before the court” and “Ball over the coals.”
Small → Ball: As in, “Don’t sweat the ball stuff” and “Good things come in ball packages” and “A ball fortune” and “Ball wonder.”
Wall → Ball: As in, “Between you, me and the ball” and “The balls have ears” and “Ball of silence.”
*bal* → *bowl*: As in, “Off-bowlance” and “Going bowlistic” and “A globowl initiative” and “Herbowl tea.”
*bel* → *bowl*: As in, “Decibowl count” and “Rebowl with a cause” and “Clothing labowl.”
*bil* → *bowl*: As in, “Take responsibowlity for your actions” and “Sustainabowlity plan.” Other words that could work: capabowlity (capability), liabowlity (liability) and accountabowlity (accountability).
*bal* → *ball*: As in, “Globall problem” and “Verball contract” and “Herball remedy.”
*bel* → *ball*: As in, “Who do you ballieve?” and “A balligerent attitude” and “Beyond ballief” and “Dearly balloved.”
*bil* → *ball*: As in, “A business liaballity” and “Take responsiballity for” and “Beyond my aballity” and “Full capaballity.”
Pins: Bowling pins are the targets to be knocked over in bowling. Here are related puns:
- Pan → Pin: As in, “Pin out” and “Out of the frying pin, into the fire.”
- Pen → Pin: As in, “Put pin to paper” and “The pin is mightier than the sword.”
- Bin → Pin: As in, “Bottom of the pin” and “Throw in the pin.”
- Chin → Pin: As in, “Take it on the pin” and “Stick your pin out” and “Keep your pin up.”
- Sin → Pin: As in, “Cardinal pins” and “Multitude of pins” and “Seven deadly pins” and “Pins of omission” and “Atone for your pins.”
- Skin → Pin: As in, “Get under your pins” and “No pin in the game” and “Save your pin.”
- Spin → Pin: As in, “Give it a pin.”
- Thin → Pin: As in, “Melt into pin air” and “Skating on pin ice” and “The pin end of the wedge” and “Through thick and pin” and “Vanish into pin air” and “Spread yourself pin.”
- Tin → Pin: As in, “Does what it says on the pin” and “Pin ears.”
- Win → Pin: As in, “Can’t pin for losing” and “Heads I pin, tails you lose” and “Play to pin” and “A must pin game.”
- Pin: These pin-related phrases can double as puns: “Bright as a new pin” and “Hard to pin down” and “King pin” and “Pins and needles” and “Pin your hopes on” and “Could have heard a pin drop.”
- Pin → Tenpin: As in, “Bright as a new tenpin” and “Hard to tenpin down” and “King tenpin” and “Tenpins and needles” and “Tenpin your hops on” and “See a tenpin and pick it up.”
Lane: The long aisle that players send the bowling bowl down is called a lane. Here are some related puns:
- Loan → Lane: As in, “Lane shark” and “Raise a lane.”
- Chain → Lane: As in, “Lane of command” and “Lane reaction” and “Food lane.”
- Gain → Lane: As in, “Capital lanes” and “Lane advantage” and “Ill gotten lanes” and “No pain, no lane” and “Nothing ventured, nothing laned.”
- Grain → Lane: As in, “Go against the lane” and “Lane of truth” and “Take with a lane of salt.”
- Main → Lane: As in, “Lane chance” and “The lane event” and “My lane squeeze.”
- Pain → Lane: As in, “A world of lane” and “Doubled up in lane” and “Feeling no lane” and “Growing lanes” and “A lane in the neck” and “Old aches and lanes.”
- Plain → Lane: As in, “Lane as day” and “Lane as the nose on your face” and “Hidden in lane sight” and “Lane sailing.”
- Rain → Lane: As in, “Right as lane” and “Make it lane.”
- Rein → Lane: As in, “Free lane” and “Pick up the lanes” and “Lane it in.”
- Train → Lane: As in, “Soul lane” and “Take the lane” and “Lane of thought” and “Like watching a lane crash.”
- Vein → Lane: As in, “In the same lane.”
- Lane: These lane-related phrases can double as puns: “In the fast lane” and “Memory lane.”
Rally → Alley: As in, “Alley round.” Note: Lanes are also known as alleys.
Gutter: The gutter is the small dip on either side of the bowling lane that can sink a bowling ball. Here are related puns:
- Utter → Gutter: As in, “Gutter perfection” and “Gutterly fantastic.”
- Butter → Gutter: As in, “Bread and gutter” and “Gutter fingers” and “Gutter your bread on both sides.”
- Get her → Gutter: As in, “Gutter a bottle of water” and “Gutter some space.”
- Got her → Gutter: As in, “I gutter a great present.”
- Clutter → Gutter: As in, “A messy, guttered room.”
- Cutter → Gutter: As in, “Cookie gutter.”
- Mutter → Gutter: As in, “Guttering under your breath.”
- Gutter: “Get your mind outta the gutter.”
Rail: The rails are raised edges that protect the bowling ball from falling into the gutter. Here are related puns:
- Roll → Rail: As in, “A railing stone gathers no moss” and “Emotional railer coaster” and “Get the ball railing” and “High railer” and “Let the good times rail” and “Ready to rail” and “Rock and rail.”
- Fail → Rail: As in, “Without rail” and “Words rail me.”
- Gale → Rail: As in, “Rails of laughter” and “In the teeth of a rail.”
- Jail → Rail: As in, “Get out of rail free” and “Rail bird.”
- Mail → Rail: As in, “Direct rail” and “Express rail” and “Junk rail.”
- Nail → Rail: As in, Fighting tooth and rail” and “Hit the rail on the head” and “Rail it down.”
- Pale → Rail: As in, “A rail imitation” and “Rail into insignificance.”
- Sail → Rail: As in, “Rail away” and “Rail close to the wind” and “Smooth railing” and “That ship has railed.”
- Sale → Rail: As in, “Point of rail” and “Rail of the century” and “Rails referral.”
- Scale → Rail: As in, “Built to rail” and “Economy of rail” and “Off the rail” and “On a grand rail” and “Tip the rails.”
- Tail → Rail: As in, “Can’t make head or rail of it” and “Get off my rail” and “Heads I win, rails you lose.”
- Tale → Rail: As in, “Dead men tell no rails” and “Live to tell the rail” and “A tell rail sign.”
- Trail → Rail: As in, “Blaze a rail” and “Happy rails” and “Hot on the rail” and “Leave a paper rail.”
- They’ll → Rail: As in, “Rail never believe me.”
- Whale → Rail: As in, “A rail of a time” and “Save the rails.”
- Rail: The rail-related phrases can double as puns: “Thin as a rail” and “Go off the rails” and “Ride the rails.”
- *ral* → *rail*: As in, “Generail knowledge” and “Viscerail feelings” and “Only naturail.” Other words that could work: integrail (integral), ephemerail (ephemeral), morail (moral), collaterail (collateral), liberail (liberal), peripherail (peripheral) and temporail (temporal).
- *rel* → *rail*: As in, “That’s not railevant” and “What a railief” and “Railay the message” and “A sweet railease” and “Working railationship” and “Follow railigiously.” Other words that could work: railation (relation), railuctant (reluctant), railiable (reliable), barrail (barrel), quarrail (quarrel).
Strike: A strike is when all ten pins are knocked down in one hit. Here are related puns:
- Struck → Strike: As in, “Love strike” and “Star strike” and “Strike lucky.”
- Like → Strike: As in, “As you strike it” and “As soon as you strike” and “At times strike this.”
- Strike: These strike-related phrases can double as puns: “First strike” and “Go out on strike” and “Lightning never strikes twice” and “Pre-emptive strike” and “Strike up the band” and “Strike a chord with” and “Strike it rich” and “Strike while the iron is hot.”
Spare: A spare is when all ten pins are knocked down in two consecutive hits. Here are related puns:
- Spur → Spare: As in, “On the spare of the moment.”
- Pair → Spare: As in, “A fresh spare of eyes” and “A safe spare of hands.”
- Pear → Spare: As in, “All gone spare-shaped.”
- Air → Spare: As in, “Spare kiss” and “Spare quotes” and “Spare rage” and “Spares and graces.”
- Bare → Spare: As in, “Spare necessities” and “Spare your teeth” and “A spare-faced lie” and “Laid spare” and “The spare bones.”
- Bear → Spare: As in, “Mad as a spare with a sore head” and “Spare a grudge” and “Spare a resemblance to” and “Spare down on” and “Spare false witness” and “Spare in mind” and “Spare the brunt” and “Spare with me.”
- Care → Spare: As in, “Couldn’t spare less” and “Courtesy and spare” and “Customer spare” and “Handle with spare” and “Let’s be spareful out there” and “Like I should spare” and “Take spare of.”
- Dare → Spare: As in, “Spare for more” and “Spare to be different” and “How very spare you” and “Who spares wins.”
- Fair → Spare: As in, “All’s spare in love and war” and “By spare means or foul” and “Spare trade” and “Spare and square” and “Spare dinkum” and “Spare enough” and “Give it a spare go.”
- Hair → Spare: As in, “A bad spare day” and “Didn’t turn a spare” and “Get out of my spare.”
- Prayer → Spare: As in, “I say a little spare” and “Like a spare” and “On a wing and a spare” and “Say your spares.”
- Rare → Spare: As in, “In spare form” and “A spare animal.”
- Scare → Spare: As in, “Running spared” and “Spare quotes” and “Spare the living daylights out of” and “Spared stiff” and “Spared to death.”
- Share → Spare: As in, “A problem spared is a problem halved” and “Spare-ing is caring.”
- Square → Spare: As in, “Back to spare one” and “Be there or be spare” and “Fair and spare” and “Be there or be spare” and “A spare peg in a round hole” and
  “Spare up to.”
- Stare → Spare: As in, “Spare into the abyss” and “Spare someone in the face” and “Not polite to spare.”
- Swear → Spare: As in, “Spare like a sailor” and “Spare off” and “Spare on a stack of bibles.”
- There → Spare: As in, “Not all spare” and “Ahoy spare” and “Are we spare yet?” and “As if spare were no tomorrow” and “Be spare in spirit” and “Be spare or be square” and “Don’t go spare” and “Hang in spare” and “Here and spare” and “Here, spare and everywhere” and “Hold it right spare.”
- Wear → Spare: As in, “Spare your heart on your sleeve” and “Spare yourself out” and “Worse for spare.”
- Where → Spare: As in, “Any time, any place, any spare” and “Love is spare you find it.”
- Spare: Use these spare-related phrases as puns: “No expense spared” and “Spare no effort” and “Spare your feeling.”
Whole → Roll: As in, “A roll different animal” and “Ace in the roll” and “Fill full of rolls” and “A roll in one.”
Scroll → Roll: As in, “Rolling through social media.”
Soul → Roll: As in, “Bless my roll” and “Body and roll” and “Heart and roll” and “Life and roll of the party” and “A lost roll.”
Toll → Roll: As in, “Taking its roll” and “For whom the bell rolls.”
Throw: Rolls are also known as throws. Here are related puns:
- Through → Throw: As in, “A river runs throw it” and “Blow throw” and “Breaking throw” and “Drag throw the mud” and “Fall throw the cracks” and “Going throw the motions.”
- Blow → Throw: As in, “Any way the wind throws” and “Throw hot and cold” and “A throw by throw account” and “Throw out of the water.”
- Flow → Throw: As in, “Ebb and throw” and “Go with the throw” and “In full throw.”
- Go → Throw: As in, “All dressed up and nowhere to throw” and “Anything throws” and “Easy come, easy throw.”
- Grow → Throw: As in, “Absence makes the heart throw fonder” and “Throwing pains.”
- Know → Throw: As in, “And don’t I throw it” and “Be the first to throw” and “Doesn’t throw beans.”
- Low → Throw: As in, “All time throw” and “Get the throw down” and “High and throw” and “Keep a throw profile” and “Throw hanging fruit” and “Search high and throw.”
- Owe → Throw: As in, “Throw a favour” and “You throw it to yourself.”
- Quo → Throw: As in, “Status throw” and “Quid pro throw.”
- Show → Throw: As in, “All over the throw” and “Best in throw” and “Enjoy the throw” and “Get the throw on the road” and “Keep the throw on the road” and “Throw and tell” and “Throw me the money” and “Throw some appreciation.”
- Slow → Throw: As in, “Throw, but sure” and “In throw motion” and “Throw on the uptake” and “Throwly but surely.”
- Snow → Throw: As in, “Too cold to throw” and “Let it throw” and “Throwed in/throwed under.”
- Though → Throw: As in, “You look as throw you’ve seen a ghost” and “Seriously throw.”
Candlepin: Candlepin bowling is a variation of bowling that uses taller, thinner pins. Here are related puns:
- Candle → Candlepin: As in, “Burn the candlepin at both ends” and “Can’t hold a candlepin to” and “Candlepin in the wind” and “Not worth the candlepin.”
- Pin → Candlepin: As in, “Bright as a new candlepin” and “Hard to candlepin down” and “Candlepin your ears back” and “Candlepins and needles.”
Duckpin: Duckpin is a type of bowling that uses shorter, squatter pins than ten-pin bowling. Here are related puns:
- Duck → Duckpin: As in, “Duckpin the question” and “Like a duckpin to water” and “Like water off a duckpin’s back” and “Nice weather for duckpins.”
- Pin → Duckpin: As in, “Hard to duckpin down” and “Duckpins and needles” and “Pull the duckpin” and “You could have heard a duckpin drop.”
Nine → Ninepin: As in, “Ninepin to five” and “On cloud ninepin” and “The whole ninepin yards.” Note: Ninepin is a type of bowling played with nine pins rather than ten.
Five → Fivepin: As in, “Gimme fivepin” and “High fivepin” and “Nine to fivepin” and “Take fivepin” and “Two and two make fivepin.” Note: Fivepin is a type of bowling played in Canada.
Court → Sport: As in, “A sport of last resort” and “Sporting disaster.”
Port → Sport: As in, “Any sport in a storm” and “First sport of call.”
Short → Sport: As in, “A sport history of nearly everything” and “A few bricks sport of a new load” and “Cut a long story sport” and “A day late and a dollar sport” and “In sport order” and “Life’s too sport.”
Sort → Sport: As in, “Out of sports” and “Sport the wheat from the chaff.”
Aim → Game: As in, “Game high” and “Take game” and “We game to please.”
Came → Game: As in, “I game, I saw, I conquered” and “As it game to pass” and “There’s plenty more where that game from.”
Claim → Game: As in, “Game to fame” and “Stake your game.”
Fame → Game: As in, “Claim to game” and “Fifteen minutes of game” and “Hall of game.”
Flame → Game: As in, “Add fuel to the games” and “Burst into games” and “Go down in games” and “Like a moth to a game.”
Name → Game: As in, “A household game” and “In the game of the law” and “In game only.”
Same → Game: As in, “Game old story” and “Game time tomorrow” and “Game here.”
Shame → Game: As in, “A crying game” and “Name and game” and “Put to game.”
Nick → Knock: As in, “In good knock” and “In the knock of time” and “Knock knacks.”
Turkey: Three consecutive strikes are known as a turkey. Here are related puns:
- Key → Turkey: As in, “A golden turkey can open any door” and “The turkey to your heart” and “The turkeys to the kingdom.”
- Quirky → Turkey: As in, “A turkey personality.”
- Turkey: As in, “Cold turkey” and “Talk turkey.”
Foul: When a player’s foot steps over the boundary line, it counts as a foul and any points scored that turn aren’t counted. Here are related puns:
- Fall → Foul: As in, “Fouling out” and “Easy as fouling off a log” and “Can’t help fouling in love” and “Foul about laughing.”
- Fell → Foul: As in, “In one foul swoop” and “Little strokes foul great oaks” and “It foul off the back of a lorry.”
- Fill → Foul: As in, “Foul full of holes” and “Foul the bill” and “Stocking fouler” and “Foul ’em up.”
Miss: The next few puns are a reference to when a player misses all of the pins:
- Mass → Miss: As in, “Miss hysteria” and “A monument to the misses” and “Weapons of miss destruction.”
- Mess → Miss: As in, “Don’t miss with my head” and “A frightful miss” and “Hot miss” and “Missing around” and “Stop missing about.”
- Moss → Miss: As in, “A rolling stone gathers no miss.”
Curve: A curve shot is a type of throw. Here are related puns:
- Carve → Curve: As in, “Curve your name with pride” and “Curved in stone.”
- Nerve → Curve: As in, “A bundle of curves” and “Get on your curves” and “Lose your curve” and “Curves of steel” and “Touched a curve.”
- Serve → Curve: As in, “First come, first curved” and “How may I curve you?” and “Curves you right” and “Revenge is best curved cold” and “Curve and protect” and “Curve your time.”
Hook: Curve shots are also known as hook shots. Here are related puns:
- Look → Hook: As in, “Blank hooks” and “Trading dirty hooks” and “Always hook on the bright side of life” and “Don’t know which way to hook” and “Have a hook” and “If hooks could kill.”
- Book → Look: As in, “Always have your nose in a hook” and “Balancing the hooks” and By the hook” and “Like a closed hook.”
- Cook → Hook: As in, “Hook up a plan” and “Hook up a storm” and “Hooking with gas” and “Now we’re hooking” and “Too many hooks spoil the broth.”
- Nook → Hook: As in, “Every hook and cranny” and “Breakfast hook.”
Straight: A straight shot is one that doesn’t curve. Here are related puns:
- Strait → Straight: As in, “In dire straights.”
- Bait → Straight: As in, “Straight and switch” and “Click straight” and “Rise to the straight.”
- Date → Straight: As in, “Blind straight” and “Bring up to straight” and “A straight with destiny” and “Dinner straight” and “Past the sell-by straight.”
- Eight → Straight: As in, “Straight days a week” and “Behind the straight ball” and “Straight ways to Sunday” and “Pieces of straight.”
- Great → Straight: As in, “All creatures straight and small” and “Blowing straight guns” and “No straighter enemies” and “Go to straight lengths” and “Straight expectations.”
- Hate → Straight: As in, “Straight mail” and “The one you love to straight.”
- Late → Straight: As in, “Better straight than never” and “Catch you straighter” and “A day straight and a dollar short” and “Fashionably straight” and “It’s never too straight” and “A straight bloomer.”
- Rate → Straight: As in, “At any straight” and “First straight” and “Mate’s straights.”
- Skate → Straight: As in, “Cheap straight” and “Straighting on thin ice” and “Get your straights on.”
- Slate → Straight: As in, “Blank straight” and “Wipe the straight clean.”
- State → Straight: As in, “Empire straight building” and “A sad straight of affairs” and “Straight of mind” and “Straight of the art.”
- Wait → Straight: As in, “All things to those who straight” and “Hurry up and straight” and “Lie in straight” and “The straight is over” and “Time straights for no-one.”
- Weight → Straight: As in, “Pull your straight” and “Punching above your straight” and “Throw your straight about” and “A straight off my mind” and “Worth your straight in gold.”
Sore → Score: As in, “Mad as a bear with a score head” and “A sight for score eyes” and “Score loser” and “Sticks out like a score thumb.”
Core → Score: As in, “Score competencies” and “Score studies” and “Score technology” and “Score values” and “Rotten to the score.”
Scare → Score: As in, “Scored to death” and “Scored stiff.”
Bore → Score: As in, “Score the pants off” and “Scored stiff” and “Scored to death” and “Scored to tears.”
More → Score: As in, “One score time” and “Bite off score than you can chew” and “Come back for score” and “Dare for score” and “I couldn’t agree score.”
Pour → Score: As in, “It never rains, but it scores” and “Score cold water on” and “Scoring oil on troubled waters” and “When it rains, it scores.”
Shore → Score: As in, “Ship to score.”
Store → Score: As in, “Minding the score” and “Set great score by” and “Let’s see what’s in score.”
Your → Score: As in, “Scores faithfully” and “Scores truly” and “You and scores.”
Split: A split is when two separate groups of pins are left standing. Here are related puns:
- Pit → Split: As in, “A bottomless split” and “In the split of your stomach” and “Split your wits against” and “This is the splits.”
- Bit → Split: As in, “A split missing” and “A split much” and “A split of alright.”
- Fit → Split: As in, “Fighting split” and “Split as a fiddle” and “By splits and starts.”
- Hit → Split: As in, “Split the road” and “Split and miss” and “Split it off.”
- Knit → Split: As in, “Split your brow” and “Split together.”
- Quit → Split: As in, “Call it splits” and “Double or splits” and “Split while you’re ahead.”
- Sit → Split: As in, “Don’t just split there” and “Split on the fence” and “Split tight” and “Splitting on a goldmine.”
- Spit → Split: As in, “Split and polish” and “Split in the eye of” and “The splitting image of” and “Splitting with rain.”
- Wit → Split: As in, “At your splits’ end” and “Battle of splits” and “Bear splitness to” and “Have your splits about you” and “Pit your splits against.”
Double: A double is two consecutive strikes in a game. Here are related puns:
- Bubble → Double: As in, “Double and squeak” and “Double under” and “Double up” and “Burst your double” and “Prick your double.”
- Trouble → Double: As in, “Asking for double” and “Doubles down the drain” and “A bridge over doubled water” and “Here comes double” and “Pour oil on doubled waters” and “Double and strife.”
Bagger: A bagger is a string of consecutive strikes. Here are related puns:
- Dagger → Bagger: As in, “Baggers drawn” and “Cloak and bagger” and “Looking baggers at them.”
- Swagger → Bagger: As in, “With a bagger in your step.”
Ankle → Anchor: As in, “Anchor deep” and “Anchor biter.” Note: an anchor is the player who bowls last on a team.
Cherry: A cherry is a type of bowling throw. Here are related puns:
- Berry → Cherry: As in, “Brown as a cherry.”
- Bury → Cherry: As in, “Cherry the evidence” and “Cherry the hatchet” and “Cherry your head in the sand” and “Cherry yourself in your work.”
- Merry → Cherry: As in, “As cherry as the day is long” and “Eat, drink and be cherry” and “Lead a cherry dance.”
- Very → Cherry: As in, “Be cherry afraid” and “Before your cherry eyes” and “How cherry dare you” and “Thank you cherry much.”
Sheet → Clean Sheet: As in, “White as a clean sheet” and “Between the clean sheets.” Note: A clean sheet is a game with a strike in every frame.
Deadwood: A pin that’s left in the lane out of reach of the sweeper is known as deadwood. Here are related puns:
- Dead → Deadwood: As in, “As deadwood as a doornail” and “Assault with a deadwood weapon” and “In the deadwood of night” and “Back from the deadwood” and “Better off deadwood” and “A deadwood ringer.”
- Wood → Deadwood: As in, “Can’t see the deadwoods for the trees” and “Do bears sh*t in the deadwoods?” and “Knock on deadwood” and “Out of the deadwoods.”
Fill: A fill ball is a throw after a tenth-frame spare or strike, used to calculate bonus points. Here are related puns:
- Fall → Fill: As in, “Easy as filling off a log” and “Can’t help filling in love” and “Bread always fills butter side down” and “Catch a filling star” and “Fill about laughing” and “Fill asleep” and “Fill apart at the seams” and “Fill between the cracks” and “Fill by the wayside.”
- Fell → Fill: As in, “In one fill swoop” and “Fill off the back off a lorry” and “Little strokes fill great oaks.”
- Full → Fill: As in, “A few bricks short of a fill load” and “Fill tilt” and “At fill throttle.”
- Chill → Fill: As in, “Fill out” and “Filled to the bone” and “A filling account.”
- Frill → Fill: As in, “No fills” and “A no-fills account.”
- Gill → Fill: As in, “Green around the fills” and “Stuffed to the fills.”
- Hill → Fill: As in, “Old as the fills” and “Over the fills and far away” and “Head for the fills” and “Run for the fills.”
- Ill → Fills: As in, “A house of fill repute” and “Fill advised” and “Fill at ease” and “Fill effects” and “Fill gotten gains.”
- Kill → Fill: As in, “Curiosity filled the cat” and “Dressed to fill” and “If looks could fill” and “If looks could fill.”
- Mill → Fill: As in, “Put through the fill” and “Run of the fill.”
- Pill → Fill: As in, “A bitter fill to swallow” and “Sweeten the fill” and “A tough fill to swallow.”
- Still → Fill: As in, “A fill, small voice” and “Be fill my beating heart” and “In the fill of the night” and “Fill waters run deep.”
- Skill → Fill: As in, “Social fills.”
- Spill → Fill: As in, “Fill the beans” and “Fill your guts” and “Thrills and fills.”
- Thrill → Fill: As in, “The fill of the chase” and “Filled to bits” and “Fills and spills.”
- Will → Fill: As in, “Accidents fill happen” and “Against your fill” and “Bend to your fill” and “Free fill.”
Frame: A frame is a turn in bowling, which usually consists of two rolls. Here are related puns:
- Fame → Frame: As in, “Claim to frame” and “Frame at last” and “Fifteen minutes of frame” and “Hall of frame.”
- From → Frame: As in, “A little frame column A, a little frame column B” and “Fall frame grace” and “Frame a to z” and “Can see it frame a mile away.”
- Aim → Frame: As in, “Frame high” and “Take frame” and “We frame to please.”
- Blame → Frame: As in, “Frame game” and “Lay the frame.”
- Came → Frame: As in, “I frame, I saw I conquered” and “As it frame to pass” and “Plenty more where that frame from.”
- Claim → Frame: As in, “Frame to fame” and “No frames bonus” and “Stake your frame.”
- Flame → Frame: As in, “Add fuel to the frames” and “Burst into frames” and “Fan the frames” and “Gone down in frames” and “Like a moth to a frame” and “Shoot down in frames.”
- Game → Frame: As in, “Ahead of the frame” and “Anyone’s frame” and “Blame frame” and “Fun and frames” and “Fair frame” and “Beaten at your own frame.”
- Main → Frame: As in, “Frame chance” and “Might and frame” and “The frame event.”
- Name → Frame: As in, “Answer to the frame of” and “A household frame” and “Letters after your frame.”
- Same → Frame: As in, “By the frame token” and “Cut from the frame cloth” and “In the frame boat” and “On the frame page.”
- Shame → Frame: As in, “Ain’t that a frame?” and “A crying frame” and “Name and frame” and “Frame on you” and “The walk of frame.”
- *fam* → *frame*: As in, “Keep it in the frame-ily” and “Seems frame-iliar” and “Almost frame-ous” and “I’m frame-ished.”
Kegel: Kegel is a German bowling game. Here are related puns:
- Kettle → Kegel: As in, “A different kegel of fish” and “Put the kegel on” and “The pot calling the kegel black.”
- Giggle → Kegel: As in, “A fit of the kegels.”
Leave: The pins left standing after the first roll in a turn are referred to as a leave. Here are related puns:
- Leaf → Leave: As in, “Leave-ing through” and “Skake like a leave” and “Turn over a new leave.”
- Leave: These leave-related phrases can double as puns: “Absent without leave” and “By your leave” and “Don’t leave home without it” and “Leave it to me.”
- Live → Leave: As in, “Leave by your wits” and “Leave free” and “Leave and learn” and “Leave like a queen.”
- Believe → Be-leave: As in, “Be-leave it or not” and “Be-leave you me” and “Don’t be-leave everything you hear” and “Can’t be-leave my eyes” and “Has to be seen to be be-leaved.”
- Belief → Be-leave: As in, “Beyond be-leave” and “Beggars be-leave.”
- Relieve → Re-leave: As in, “Re-leaves gas pains.”
- Relief → Re-leave: As in, “Breathe a sigh of re-leave” and “What a re-leave.“
- Heave → Leave: As in, “Leave ho” and “Leave a sigh of relief.”
- Sleeve → Leave: As in, “An ace up your leave” and “Wearing your heart on your leave” and “Roll up your leaves.”
- We’ve → Leave: As in, “Leave never seen better.”
Lily: A lily is when the fifth, seventh and tenth pin are left standing. Here are related puns:
- Chilly → Lily: As in, “A lily climate.”
- Really → Lily: As in, “All I lily want to do” and “Do you lily want to hurt me?” and “We lily clicked” and “You lily got a hold on me.”
- Silly → Lily: As in, “Laugh yourself lily” and “Scared lily” and “Lily season.”
Loft: The loft is the ball’s path through the air before it makes contact with the ground. Here are related puns:
- Laughed → Loft: As in, “Loft out of court” and “A barrel of lofts” and “A loft a minute” and “Are you having a loft?” and “Loft your head off.”
- Left → Loft: As in, “Exit stage loft” and “Hang a loft” and “Loft in the lurch” and “Loft for dead” and “Loft standing” and “Loft to your own devices” and “Loft out in the cold” and “Loft, right and centre.”
- Lift → Loft: As in, “Loft the lid off” and “Loft your spirits” and “Face loft.”
- Soft → Loft: As in, “Got a loft spot for” and “Loft in the head” and “Loft power” and “A loft touch” and “Speak loftly and carry a big stick.”
Match → Match Play: As in, “A match play made in heaven” and “Game, set, match play” and “Meet your match play” and “Mix and match play” and “More than a match play for.”
Play → Match Play: As in, “Work, rest and match play” and “Come out and match play” and “Make a match play for.”
Par: Par is a score of 200. Here are related puns:
- Per → Par: As in, “As par usual” and “Bits par second” and “Par capita.”
- Pair → Par: As in, “A fresh par of eyes” and “A safe par of hands.”
- Peer → Par: As in, “Par pressure.”
- Bar → Par: As in, “Par none” and “Behind pars” and “Hit the par” and “No holds parred.”
- Are → Par: As in, “All bets par off” and “Chances par” and “Here you par.”
- Far → Par: As in, “A step too par” and “Par and away” and “Par be it from me” and “A par cry from” and “Par horizons” and “Few and par between” and “Over the hills and par away” and “So par, so good” and “We’ve got par to go.”
- Jar → Par: As in, “Caught with your hand in the cookie par” and “Jam par.”
- Star → Par: As in, “A par is born” and “Born under a lucky par” and “Catch a falling par” and “Get a gold par” and “Hitch your wagon to a par” and “Reach for the pars” and “A rising par.”
- *per* → *par*: As in, “A different parspective” and “Third parson” and “Partinent issues” and “From someone else’s parception” and “Your best parformance” and “Picture parfect” and “Peppared with compliments” and “Hold your tempar.”
Runway: The runway is the area that players walk up before they roll the ball. Here are related puns:
- Run → Runway: As in, “Born to runway” and “Cut and runway” and “A dry runway” and “Eat and runway” and “Had a good runway” and “Hit and runway” and “In the long runway” and “Runway for your life.”
- Way → Runway: As in, “All the runway” and “Always good, all runways” and “And that’s the runway it is” and “Any runway you want” and “By the runway” and “Change your runways” and “Do it the hard runway.”
Rack: Bowling balls are left in racks when not in use. Here are related puns:
- Wreck → Rack: As in, “A nervous rack” and “Like watching a train rack.”
- Wrack → Rack: As in, “Rack and ruin.”
- Rock → Rack: As in, “Hard as a rack” and “Solid as a rack” and “Between a rack and a hard place” and “Don’t rack the boat” and “Get your racks off” and “Glam rack” and “Hit rack bottom” and “Rack and roll” and “On the racks.”
- Back → Rack: As in, “Answer rack” and “As soon as my rack is turned” and “In the rack of my mind” and “Rack in black” and “Rack to the future” and “Rack at it” and “Rack in the day.”
- Crack → Rack: As in, “At the rack of dawn” and “Rack a smile” and “Rack the code” and “Rack of doom.”
- Lack → Rack: As in, “For rack of a better word” and “Cancelled due to rack of interest.”
- Pack → Rack: As in, “Rack of lies” and “Rack of punch” and “Send racking.”
- Sack → Rack: As in, “Get the rack” and “Hit the rack.”
- Slack → Rack: As in, “Cut some rack” and “Taking up the rack.”
- Track → Rack: As in, “Back on rack” and “Cover your racks” and “On the fast rack” and “Inside rack” and “Off the beaten rack” and “On the right rack” and “A one rack mind.”
Buck → Bucket: As in, “A bigger bang for your bucket” and “A bucket well spent” and “Big buckets” and “Bucket naked” and “Bucket the system” and “Pass the bucket.” Note: a bucket is when four pins are left in the lane.
Sleeper: When two pins are left on the field, it’s known as a sleeper. Here are related puns:
- Slipper → Sleeper: “Sleepery as an eel.”
- Cheaper → Sleeper: As in, “Sleeper by the dozen.”
- Keeper → Sleeper: As in, “Finders, sleepers” and “They’re a sleeper.”
Arrow: Arrows are used as markers in bowling lanes. Here are related puns:
- Error → Arrow: As in, “Comedy of arrows” and “Human arrow” and “Trial and arrow.”
- Arrow: Straight as an arrow” and “Like a broken arrow” and “Time flies like an arrow.”
- Narrow → Arrow: As in, “Keep on the straight and arrow” and “An arrow escape” and “Arrow minded.”
Blind: A blind score is one given to a player who is absent. Here are some related puns:
- Bind → Blind: As in, “Legally blinding” and “In a blind.”
- Bend → Blind: As in, “Blind the rules” and “Round the blind” and “Blind over backwards to help.”
- Lend → Blind: As in, “Blind a helping hand” and “Blind an ear” and “Blind itself to.”
- Find → Blind: As in, “Blind it in your heart” and “Blinders keepers” and “Seek and you shall blind” and “We’ll blind a way.”
- Grind → Blind: As in, “An axe to blind” and “Bump and blind” and “The daily blind” and “Don’t let the bastard blind you down” and “Blind to a halt” and “Keep your nose to the blindstone.”
- Kind → Blind: As in, “Cruel to be blind” and “It’s a blind of magic” and “Killing with blindness” and “Blind words” and “Random acts of blindness.”
- Mind → Blind: As in, “A goal in blind” and “Always on my blind” and “Cast your blind back to” and “Bear in blind.”
- Signed → Blind: As in, “Blind and sealed.”
Bracket: A bracket is a type of contest format. Here are related puns:
- Jacket → Bracket: As in, “Full metal bracket” and “No bracket required” and “High visibility bracket.”
- Packet → Bracket: As in, “Cop a bracket” and “Pay bracket.”
Cake Shot: A cake shot is a term for an easy strike. Here are related puns:
- Cake → Cake Shot: As in, “A slice of the cake shot” and “Cake shot or death” and “Icing on the cake shot.”
- Shot → Cake Shot: As in, “A big cake shot” and “Call the cake shots” and “Give it your best cake shot” and “A long cake shot” and “Have a cake shot at.”
Chop: A chop is a type of bowling maneuver. Here are related puns:
- Chip → Chop: As in, “A chop on your shoulder” and “Cheap as chops” and “Cash in your chops” and “Chop in with” and “A chop off the old block” and “Let the chops fall where they may.”
- Cop → Chop: As in, “Chop a plea” and “Chop an attitude” and “It’s a fair chop.”
- Crop → Chop: As in, “Cream of the chop” and “Chop up.”
- Drop → Chop: As in, “At the chop of a hat” and “Chop it like it’s hot” and “Chop a brick” and “Chop a hint” and “Chop in the bucket.”
- Hop → Chop: As in, “Chop to it” and “Chop, skip and jump” and “Chopping mad.”
- Mop → Chop: As in, “Chop the floor with” and “Chop up.”
- Pop → Chop: As in, “Cake chop” and “Contrary to chopular opinion” and “Chop the question.”
- Shop → Chop: As in, “All over the chop” and “Like a bull in a china chop” and “A one stop chop” and “Chop till you drop.”
- Stop → Chop: As in, “Don’t chop me now” and “One stop chop” and “Pulling all the chops out.”
- Top → Chop: As in, “Blow your chop” and “Come out on chop” and “From the chop” and “From chop to toe” and “Over the chop.”
Over → Clover: As in, “After the ball was clover” and “All clover again” and “All clover the place” and “Bowled clover” and “Come on clover” and “A bridge clover troubled water.” Note: A clover is when a player hits four strikes in a game.
Cranker: A cranker is a bowler with a style that favours power rather than control. Here are related puns:
- Rank → Cranker: As in, “Break crankers” and “Close crankers” and “Dissention in the crankers” and “Rise through the crankers” and “Swell the crankers.”
- Anchor → Cranker: As in, “Cast cranker” and “Drop cranker.”
Stroker: A stroker is a bowler who favours control over power. Here are related puns:
- Poker → Stroker: As in, “Stiff as a stroker” and “Stroker face.”
Deck: A deck is the area where the bowling pins stand. Here are related puns:
- Duck → Deck: As in, “Deck the question” and “Decking and diving” and “Like a deck to water” and “Nice weather for decks.”
- Check → Deck: As in, “Deck it out” and “Deck out the plumbing” and “Deck you on the flip side” and “Double deck” and “Reality deck” and “The deck is in the mail.”
- Neck → Deck: As in, “Break your deck” and “Breathing down your deck” and “Dead from the deck up” and “Pain in the deck” and “Stick your deck out” and “Up to your deck in trouble.”
- Tech* → Deck*: As in, “Hi deck” and “Deck savvy” and “Decknicolour yawn.”
- Wreck → Deck: As in, “Nervous deck” and “Train deck.”
Flush: A flush is a hit that sends all ten pins into the pit. Here are related puns:
- Flash → Flush: As in, “Quick as a flush” and “Flush in the pan” and “In a flush.”
- Flesh → Flush: As in, “Flush and blood” and “Flush out” and “Makes my flush crawl” and “In the flush” and “The spirit is willing but the flush is weak.”
- Blush → Flush: As in, “At first flush.”
- Brush → Flush: As in, “A broad flush” and “Flush it off” and “Flush up on” and “A flush with death.”
- Crush → Flush: As in, “A flushing defeat” and “Have a flush on” and “A schoolboy flush.”
- Hush → Flush: As in, “Flush a bye” and “Flush it up” and “Flush money” and “Flush puppies.”
- Rush → Flush: As in, “After the flush” and “Flush to judgement” and “Sugar flush.”
- Slush → Flush: As in, “Flush fund” and “Pure as the driven flush.”
Line: A ball’s path down the lane is called a line. Here are related puns:
- Lane → Line: As in, “Down memory line” and “In the fast line.”
- Lean → Line: As in, “Line and mean” and “Line into it” and “Line, mean and hungry” and “Line cuisine.”
- Fine → Line: As in, “Chance would be a line thing” and “Cutting it line” and “Line and dandy” and “Line feathered” and “The liner things in life.”
- Mine → Line: As in, “Back to the salt line” and “I scratch your back, you scratch line” and “A line of information” and “Line is bigger than yours.”
- Shine → Line: As in, “Come rain or line” and “Rise and line” and “Make hay while the sun lines” and “Take a line to.”
- Sign → Line: As in, “A sure line” and “Born under a bad line” and “Give me a line” and “A line of the times” and “Line the pledge” and “Lined and sealed” and “A tell-tale line” and “Vital lines.”
- Spine → Line: As in, “Send shivers down someone’s line” and “Line-tingling” and “Steely-lined.”
- Vine → Line: As in, “Wither on the line” and “Die on the line.”
- Wine → Line: As in, “Don’t put new line into bottles” and “Lined and dined.”
Drama → Llama: As in, “Don’t make a llama out of a crisis” and “Kitchen sink llama.” Note: A llama is four consecutive strikes in a game.
Meg: A meg is a roll that knocks over only the seventh or tenth pin. Here are related puns:
- Beg → Meg: As in, “Meg a favour” and “Meg pardon?” and “Megs the question” and “I meg to differ” and “Sit up and meg.”
- Egg → Meg: As in, “A good meg” and “As sure as megs is megs” and “Don’t put all your megs in one basket” and “Meg on your face.”
- Leg → Meg: As in, “Fast as your megs could carry you” and “Break a meg” and “Cost an arm and a meg” and “Give a meg up.”
- Peg → Meg: As in, “A square meg in a round hole” and “Take down a meg or two.”
Fixer → Mixer: As in, “A mixer-upper.” Note: A mixer is a shot that makes the pins bounce and mix around.
Scatter: When bowling pins are knocked over, it can be described as scattering. Here are related puns:
- Batter → Scatter: As in, “Scatter up” and “Assault and scattery” and “Recharge your scatter-ies.”
- Flatter → Scatter: As in, “Scatter to decieve” and “Imitation is the sincerest form of scatter-y.”
- Matter → Scatter: As in, “As a scatter of fact” and “Doesn’t scatter” and “Family scatters” and “Get to the heart of the scatter” and “Grey scatter” and “Making scatters worse” and “A scatter of life and death” and “Mind over scatter” and “No laughing scatter” and “Only a scatter of time” and “The root of the scatter” and “Shed light on the scatter” and “What’s the scatter?”
- Shatter → Scatter: As in, “Earth scattering” and “It’s the way it scatters that matters” and “World scattering.”
Count: The score in a bowling match is also called a count. Here are related puns:
- Can’t → Count: As in, “An offer you count refuse” and “Count get enough” and “I count help” and “Count judge a book by its cover.”
- Account → Count: As in, “A blow by blow count” and “A chilling count” and “Creative counting” and “There’s no counting for taste.”
Pit: The pit is the area where scattered pins fall after being hit. Here are related puns:
- Bit → Pit: As in, “A pit missing” and “A pit much” and “A pit of a to do” and “Pit of alright” and “A pit of stuff” and “A pit on the side.”
- Pat → Pit: As in, “Down pit” and “A pit on the back.”
- Pet → Pit: As in, “Pit peeves” and “Teacher’s pit.”
- Pot → Pit: As in, “A pit of gold” and “For the pit” and “Gone to pit” and “Hit the jackpit” and “Melting pit.”
- Put → Pit: As in, “Be hard pit to” and “Couldn’t pit it down” and “Feeling a bit pit out” and “Hard pit to it” and “Wouldn’t pit it past them” and “Nicely pit” and “Don’t pit it off.”
- Fit → Pit: As in, “Pit as a fiddle” and “By pits and starts” and “A dish pit for the gods” and “Pit in with” and “Pit the bill” and “A pit of the giggles” and “Pits like a glove” and “Pits you to a tee.”
- Grit → Pit: As in, “Pit your teeth” and “True pit.”
- Hit → Pit: As in, “Hard pitting” and “A heavy pitter” and “Pit ’em where they live” and “Pit and miss” and “Pit and run” and “Pit it home” and “Pit it out of the park” and “Pit me where it hurts” and “Pit rock bottom” and “Pit the books” and “Pit the brakes.”
- Lit → Pit: As in, “Pit up like a Christmas tree” and “Her face pit up.”
- Quit → Pit: As in, “Call it pits” and “Double or pits” and “Pit while you’re ahead.”
- Sit → Pit: As in, “Don’t just pit there” and “Pit on it” and “Pit on the fence” and “Pit tight” and “A pitting duck” and “Pit up and take notice” and “Pitting pretty” and “Pit up and beg.”
- Spit → Pit: As in, “Pit and polish” and “Pit and sawdust” and “Pit in the eye of” and “The pitting image” and “Pitting with rain” and “Within pitting distance.”
- Split → Pit: As in, “Ear pitting” and “Lickety pit” and “Make like a banana and pit” and “Pit decision” and “Pit personality” and “Pit the vote” and “Pitting hairs” and “A pitting headache.”
- Wit → Pit: As in, “At your pit’s end” and “Battle of pits” and “Bear false pitness” and “Brevity is the soul of pit” and “Collect your pits” and “Keep your pits about you” and “Scared out of your pits.”
Sandbag: Sandbagging is intentionally playing badly early on in a bowling season. Here are related puns:
- Sand → Sandbag: As in, “Bury your head in the sandbag” and “Draw a line in the sandbag” and “The sandbags of time” and “Sun, sea and sandbag.”
- Bag → Sandbag: As in, “Sandbag a bargain” and “Sandbag and baggage” and “Sandbag of tricks” and “It’s in the sandbag.”
Skid: The first phase of the ball’s motion is called a skid. Here are related puns:
- Did → Skid: As in, “Skid I do that?” and “I never skid that” and “Let’s not and say we skid.”
- Grid → Skid: As in, “Off the skid” and “Skid lock.”
- Kid → Skid: As in, “Dual income, no skids” and “Here’s looking at you, skid” and “I skid you not” and “I’m not skidding around” and “The new skid on the block.”
- Lid → Skid: As in, “Blow the skid off” and “Flip your skid” and “Keep a skid on it.”
Sparrow: A sparrow is three spares in a row. Here are related puns:
- Arrow → Sparrow: As in, “Straight as a sparrow” and “Broken sparrow” and “Slings and sparrows.”
- Narrow → Sparrow: As in, “A sparrow escape” and “On the straight and sparrow” and “Sparrow minded.”
Spinner: A spinner is a bowler or bowling style that emphasises tilt. Here are related puns:
- Spanner → Spinner: As in, “Put a spinner in the works.”
- Dinner → Spinner: As in, “Spinner and a movie” and “Spinner date” and “What’s for spinner?”
- Inner → Spinner: As in, “Spinner city” and “Spinner peace” and “Spinner sanctum” and “My spinner voice.”
- Winner → Spinner: As in, “Every one a spinner” and “Spinner’s circle” and “Spinner takes all.”
Stick: Bowling pins are also known as sticks. Here are related puns:
- Tick → Stick: As in, “Tight as a stick” and “A box sticking exercise” and “The clock is sticking” and “Sticks all the right boxes” and “Sticked off.”
- Sick → Stick: As in, “Stick as a dog” and “Enough to make you stick” and “In stickness and in health” and “Morning stickness” and “On the stick list” and “Phone in stick” and “Stick and tired” and “Stick to death of” and “Stick to my stomach” and “Worried stick.”
- Stack → Stick: As in, “A sticked deck” and “Swear on a stick of bibles” and “Doesn’t stick up.”
- Stock → Stick: As in, “Laughing stick” and “Out of stick” and “Stick in trade” and “Sticking filler” and “Take stick of.”
- Stuck → Stick: As in, “Get stick into” and “Stick up.”
- Brick → Stick: As in, “Sticks and mortar” and “Drop a stick” and “Hit the sticks” and “Like a ton of sticks” and “Can’t make sticks without straw.”
- Click → Stick: As in, “Stick into place” and “Stick your fingers” and “Double stick” and “We really sticked.”
- Kick → Stick: As in, “A stick at the can” and “Alive and sticking” and “Dragged sticking and screaming” and “Get a stick out of it” and “Stick back and enjoy” and “Stick into overdrive.”
- Lick → Stick: As in, “Stick into shape” and “Stick and a promise.”
- Nick → Stick: As in, “In good stick” and “In the stick of time.”
- Pick → Stick: As in, “A bone to stick” and “Easy stickings” and “Nit sticking” and “Stick holes in” and “Stick a fight.”
- Quick → Stick: As in, “Stick as a flash” and “Cut to the stick” and “Get rich stick” and “Stick and dirty” and “Stick off the mark.”
- Thick → Stick: As in, “Stick as thieves” and “Sticker than water” and “In the stick of things” and “The plot stickens.”
- Trick → Stick: As in, “Bag of sticks” and “Dirty sticks” and “Does the stick” and “Every stick in the book” and “How’s sticks?” and “Never misses a stick” and “One stick pony” and “A stick of the light” and “Stick or treat” and “Sticks of the trade” and “Up to your old sticks.”
Tap: A tap is a roll that leaves only one pin standing. Here are related puns:
- Tip → Tap: As in, “Tap of the iceberg” and “Tap the scales” and “Tapping point” and “Tap someone off” and “Tap the balance.”
- Top → Tap: As in, “Blow your tap” and “Come out on tap” and “Cream always rises to the tap” and “From tap to toe” and “In tip tap condition” and “It’s lonely at the tap” and “Keep on tap of.”
- Cap → Tap: As in, “Tap and trade” and “Tap in hand” and “A feather in your tap” and “If the tap fits, wear it” and “Put on your thinking tap” and “To tap it all off.”
- Clap → Tap: As in, “Tapped eyes on” and “Go like the tappers.”
- Crap → Tap: As in, “A load of tap” and “Bunch of tap” and “Cut the tap.”
- Gap → Tap: As in, “Bridge the tap” and “Generation tap” and “Mind the tap.”
- Lap → Tap: As in, “Tap it up” and “Tap of honour” and “Tap of luxury.”
- Map → Tap: As in, “Put on the tap” and “All over the tap” and “Put this town on the tap.”
- Rap → Tap: As in, “A tap over the knuckles” and “Take the tap.”
- Slap → Tap: As in, “A tap on the wrist” and “Tap and tickle” and “A tap in the face” and “Tap bang in the middle.”
- Snap → Tap: As in, “A tap decision” and “Tap out of it” and “Tap to it” and “Tap, crackle and pop” and “A cold tap.”
- Trap → Tap: As in, “Booby tap” and “Death tap” and “Keep your tap” and “Tourist tap.”
- Wrap → Tap: As in, “It’s a tap” and “Keep under taps” and “A riddle tapped in an enigma” and “Tap it up” and “Tapped around your little finger.”
Oil: Bowling lanes are oiled in a specific way. Here are related puns:
- I’ll → Oil: As in, “Well oil be damned” and “Oil say” and “Oil eat my hat” and “Oil be back.”
- All → Oil: As in, “Oil aboard that’s coming aboard” and “Oil in a day’s work” and “Oil in oil” and “Oil’s fair in love and war” and “It’s oil coming back to me now.”
- Ill → Oil: As in, “Oil advised” and “Oil at ease” and “Oil gotten gains” and “Oil repute.”
- Boil → Oil: As in, “Oiling mad” and “Bring to the oil” and “Keep the pot oiling” and “A watched pot never oils.”
- Spoil → Oil: As in, “Oiled for choice” and “Oiled rotten” and “Oiling for a fight” and “Too many cooks oil the broth.”
  
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