It's not so different from the Italian bowling game called bocce, but this game uses metal balls.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

And I love the idea of bocce and chess in the park.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-06-06] Reference

Here the bocce is our favourite game and we can lose days to play that game.    From Wordnik.com.  [PezCyclingNews.com] Reference

Indeed, the word "bocce" is the plural of the Italian word "boccia," which means.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

First we went to Campo di bocce and drank beer and played bocce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

Or does it do less damage if I set up a bocce court or something?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Density and Building Height] Reference

Blog Guelph: bocce clap for bocce, originally uploaded by vw-busman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites] Reference

Families play bocce in the warm evenings, the factory rising above them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethanol Could be a Weak Link in State's Energy Network] Reference

Try playing bocce with dogs running around, and one of them a retriever!.    From Wordnik.com.  [wmtc4, and canada] Reference

A month ago, the Celtics were doddering around like a Boca Raton bocce club.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Call Them the Bronx Codgers] Reference

Her daughter fallopia was harrassed on the bocce court by his son testosterone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

My favourite piece of Liberal infrastructure was a bocce court in North Toronto.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 January 26 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference

Highwood wasn't always known for bocce, the traditional Italian lawn-bowling game.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's Bocce Capital] Reference

This was an astonishing development, akin to Americans jilting baseball for bocce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wine Now More Popular than Beer | Impact Lab] Reference

They have decided to play a mixed game of bocce and shuffleboard instead of football.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Magic Number: 2,210 Delegates] Reference

HOH comps., until the end, are either questions or BARELY physical like bocce type games.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Big Brother': Things get sticky on Sunday | EW.com] Reference

Next time I'm bringing my bocce balls to that hilltop setting, and we'll waive all deadlines!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wine Bloggers Conference 2008: The Vineyard Walk] Reference

And it's not all that different from the Italian game bocce, but it's played with metal balls.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Game Draws Melange To New York City Park] Reference

Also, they're rolled rather than tossed, as in bocce or petanque, the French version of the game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barefoot in Central Park] Reference

It also has views of the Long Island Sound, tennis courts, softball fields, basketball courts, bocce courts and horeshoe pitches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Courtside History in Forest Hills] Reference

My custom couture Chanelgown that my good friend Karl had given me during a rousing match of bocce in St. Tropez snagged in the rear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: My Date with Andy Samberg] Reference

At Sun Meadow Resort, guests can participate in a range of activities, like bocce, concerts and cooking courses — all without clothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perspectives: Quotes in the News] Reference