bola

But some opt for less physically demanding escapism in the form of "congklak" -- a counting game using seeds or stones -- or "bola bekel", similar to jacks.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Huge queues formed where la bola en la calle – the gossip on the street – told of chicken, pork or cooking oil.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2021

The first performer was Jan Damm, a man with wavy hair, a live-wire grin and a talent for the rola bola, a contraption involving a board placed atop a couple of cylinders.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2017

La bola, Cuba’s bush telegraph, transmits news around the island long before it is covered by state media.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 20, 2015

The Inka bola consisted of three stones tied to lengths of llama tendon.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The Tehuelche were innovators, too: Outsiders marveled at their bolas, weighted rope snares they swung and launched from horseback to hunt llamalike guanaco and flightless rhea birds.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023

Developed around 2016, the BolaWrap was modeled after the bolas used by gauchos to wrangle animals.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2020

Nonetheless, by the time of the siege of Qosqo the Inka had developed an effective anti-cavalry tactic: bolas.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Had the bolas come in massed, coordinated onslaughts instead of being wielded by individual soldiers as they thought opportune, Pizarro might well have met his match.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

When within twenty or thirty yards, he jerks the bolas from his girdle, and, whirling it violently above his head, lets fly.

From The Captive in Patagonia by Bourne, Benjamin Franklin