Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ninepins

1 sense of ninepins

Sense 1
ninepins, skittles -- (a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins)
       => bowling -- (a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ninepin

1 sense of ninepin

Sense 1
ninepin, skittle, skittle pin -- (a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles)
       => bowling pin, pin -- (a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target)