If life is just a bowl of cherries, then bowling is a life of launching 12-pound cherry-flavored gumballs. Experience life's sweetest pastime with today's Groupon: for $5, you get two games of bowling plus a pair of rental shoes (an $11 value) at World Bowling Center, located on Canada Avenue. This Groupon is valid during open bowling only.

At World Bowling Center, slick spheres fly down 32 glistening wood lanes to obliterate perfectly placed pearly white pins. Use the touch-screen Brunswick Vector lower monitors to scrutinize scoring, or watch the upper monitors as they illustrate your fifth-straight gutter ball with high-tech graphics. The center's cosmic lighting system will bathe bowlers in a supernatural glow not unlike light dancing on thousands of sequins at a Liberace impersonator convention. Spend a good chunk of your day or night at World Bowling Center taunting friends and taking out frustrations on a group of hapless pinheads. Unlike other competitive sports, such as dogsled racing and rap battling, bowling has zero barriers to entry and a shallow learning curve.

Located within 15 miles of all the major theme parks and open until 2 a.m. on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, World Bowling Center offers a respite from a full day of standing in queues and walking through puddles of melted ice cream. Hungry globe-rollers can stop by the snack bar or full beer and liquor bar. For aspiring bowlers age 9 and younger, World Bowling Center offers bumpers to fill hazardous gutters and ensure projectiles reach the pins each time.