duckpins

Tenpin bowling may get all the attention, but fans of duckpins — smaller pins, cantaloupe-size ball, three rolls per frame instead of two — insist it’s the more challenging sport.

Around him, strewn like duckpins, lay 29 of the best golfers on earth, so far behind him they might as well not have bothered to play.

An offshoot of traditional 10-pin bowling, duckpins were born in the early 1900s.

Short-track races have been won by the only skater still standing, because the rest have been knocked over like duckpins.