A bowling ball and bowling pins, as used in ten-pin bowling. Typically depicted as a bowling ball alongside two or three white pins with red stripes.

Most platforms show a black bowling ball, though Microsoft's is purple and JoyPixels' is red. A previous Google design showed the ball striking three pins, emphasized by a yellow impact burst.

This emoji predates the inclusion of emoji within Unicode. It was first added to early Japanese emoji keyboards by au by KDDI in 2003, though it was represented in earlier pre-emoji Japanese character sets as well.

Bowling was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.