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

Axel Perez, his nephew, swings and sways atop the rolla bola, a platform balanced atop one or more rolling cylinders.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

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

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

Abel tried swinging the stone around and around above his head with a gradually lengthening line and then releasing it like a bola.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

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

I swung and flung my bolas, and missed, and had to dismount.

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon