"You can kill four or five hours watching the boccie players."

The boccie players from 18 nations received something else - a book.

Friends no longer drop by to use their pool and boccie court.

These guys were talking as if they'd just had a disagreement over a game of boccie ball or something.

"The kids like to play boccie with their grandparents," she said.

"When you play cards or boccie, there is always a winner."

A boccie court sits at the end of town.

Old Italian men play boccie across the street while their wives gossip out front.

When the ghosts gather to play boccie in front of the church across the street, I am sure they are smiling.

I'd recommend playing a round of boccie before packing the family into the van.

Creating the perfect boccie court may seem a low priority for a system with 28,156 total acres to maintain.

Argument may help, but winning a game of boccie also requires considerable skill.

This manifestation of boccie is similar to the kind played in the parks, only with hard liquor.

Only a handful of men still play boccie, and there are fewer than five coffee shops left on the avenue.

The game was boccie, and so was the cause.

Alex was introduced to the sport by an old-time boccie player.

They stood just off the boccie ball courts, under a gingko tree, hiding from the sun.

"We love boccie," he said, adding that his department had started a citywide tournament in 1995.

Still, the boccie men can enjoy their camaraderie, if not their court.

"Did you read in the paper how the recent City Hall meeting was devoted to where to put the new boccie courts?"

The cardinals were playing boccie on the lawn of Poletti's villa.

Washington Park's open spaces are often used by visitors to play boccie, volleyball, and badminton games.

The playgrounds will then be repaired, the boccie courts refurbished.

A. Lawn bowling is similar to boccie or curling.

Paved stone paths wind around fire pits, benches and a boccie court.