Yes, because Bowling was their favorite sport; and ice skating and sledding where activities from their homeland, the Netherlands.
The Dutch didn't invent bowling; evidence of the game has been found in Egyptian tombs dating back 5,000 years. However, the Dutch, like the Germans and the English, obviously enjoyed the game enough to standardize it somewhat and begin to codify its rules.
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Figure skating is done in Holland, but speed skating is what the Dutch excel at, winning a great part of the medals at every Winter Olympics.
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Sentence: Dutch settlers were responsible for bowling's introduction to North America. Subject: settlers Adjective: Dutch Verb were responsible
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Bowling was created by the dutch settlers in the origonal colonies in the late 1600's
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The Dutch, the Germans, and the English each brought their own type of ninepin bowling to the US. Tenpin bowling is derived from ninepin bowling.
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People have been ice skating for centuries. The first account of figure skating is in 1772. The first European championship was in 1891 and the International Skating Union was founded in 1892. Figure Skating was also first created by the Dutch in the 13 or 14 Century.