We're not too old to play sports: The career of women lawn bowlers

Leisure Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-60

  Heuser, Linda ^a  

^a WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SPORT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; PERTH [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

EID: 12244251474     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0201436042000250131     Document Type: Article

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