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A forward slash on the scoresheet, recording ten pins down in two balls.
Also known as: Spare, Slash mark
A forward slash means the frame was cleared with the second ball. It scores ten plus the next delivery only — one ball of bonus rather than the strike's two.
Records a spare — the remaining pins felled by the second ball of a frame. The playing rules define the spare and its single-ball bonus.
A single stroke leaning forward from lower left to upper right, written in the second box of a bowling frame.
One ball or two: the cross is a strike, the slash a spare.