It’s almost as if there’s an unspoken rule that bowling team names require bad puns. Here are some bowling team names from my company’s annual bowling tournament…
- The Lucky Strikes
- Rolling Pins
- Spare Me
- Foot Fungus Freaks
- Pin Pals
- Ten Pin Wizards
- Split Happens
- The Thunderballs
Proposed team names, but unused…
- The Gutter Brawlers
- Wholly Bowlers
- We’ve Got Balls
- Split Ends
- I Can’t Believe It’s Not Gutter
Naming Your Own Bowling Team
Are you still looking for a good name for your bowling team? None of the above team names suit your fancy? There are some simple rules you can follow to creating your own team name. First, start with a word related to bowling. Here’s a table of some of the most common bowling-related words and terminology:
| strike | spare | split |
| gutter | ball | pin |
| tenpin | bowl | lane |
| alley | bowling | gutter ball |
| league | frame | roller |
| finger | shoes | beer |
If you want to avoid a pun or play on words, you could simply pick one or two of the above words and put them together, adding an adjective for a little more pizzazz. Go for something with a good ring to it, or a little alliteration. For example:
- Super Strikes
- Crazy Pin Lane
- Bad Ball Bowlers
- Smelly Bowling Shoes
You would probably agree that these are pretty boring. I highly recommend you explore the puns and wordplay. A good start is to think of a common phrase that happens to use one of the words in the chart. Simply reuse that phrase and you automatically have a bowling team name with a double meaning. For instance, “Spare Change”, “Going on Strike”, or “Alley Cats” are regular phrases that work well for a bowling team. In the original list, “The Lucky Strikes” and “Rolling Pins” both followed this rule of thumb.
If you want to get even more experimental and want a more complex pun, you can try thinking of words, phrases, movie titles, or celebrity nams that sound similar or rhyme with bowling terminology. In the list at the top, “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Gutter” is amusing because it replaces “Butter” with “Gutter”. Or try swapping similar-sounding words in and out of a bowling phrase. Here are a few more ideas along those lines…
- Gutter Bawl
- Changing Lanes
- Alley McBowl
- The Mis-Splits
- Gutterfinger
- The Tenpin Commandments
- Axis & Alleys
- Split-finger Fast-bowl
- The Pin Pricks
- The Incredibowls
Good luck naming your bowling team! Have you come up with any great team names? If so, feel free to add them below.
Comments
40 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.Team name. “The Four Babes with Balls”
The name has been going almost 15 years.
Thank you!
WHAT ABOUT THE BOWLING STONES!
BULFS!!
(bowlers u’d likes to F***)
Larry the Cable Guy
Gutter DONE
The Bowl Movements
The Gutter Cats
or
Deadwood Posse
or
The Lane Gang
My team name this year is taken from a old 80’s cartoon: ” Bowltron ”
The 4 of us unite to combine into 1 unstopable unit.
strike Seekers?
A team of four women in my league were called “Dolls with Balls.”
We name our team “What’s In a Name?”
Ivanna Bowlalot
TEAM SPARIT
Spare & Change
Gutter Dusters
wow these are sepcial how bout brooklen hookers
Blame It On The Lane
Last year was…”We Got Robbed”
The Hookies
NO CHARGE DELIVERY
Stuff Ups
No I Deer
Fat Chance
Buckly’s Chance
Subzero
The Srike,the spare, and the split
We have not settled on one yet, but as soon as we do I’ll post it up.
Incrediballs
How about “Suds & Strikes”
The Banana Splits
Strike Force
You guessed it, we’re police officers
Team ” living on a spare” that’s ours
“N Striking Distance”
“Strike Factory”
Are two names I have used in past.
“Our X comes before the W” (X is after W in alphabet)
“Ball + US = No Pins Left”
“GPS – Global Position Striking”
Are some I’m thinking of using
For Whom the Ball Rolls (from the song, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
bowling crackers
Seeing how my partner and I are both 6′3″ and 300 lbs plus we went with “Big and Ugly”…of course everyone in the house knows who the ugly one is but we dont tell him.
Nice Spare – (nice pair!)
3 dicks 1 chick, complete with 3 dancing penises and a baby chick logo (yeah…3 guys and a girl)
Bad Spare Day
Splits and swallows
Dixie Wrecked
How about “Gutter Fingers”