For anyone that lives in a warmer climate, can't ice skate or wants more to watch I'd suggest you checkout lawn bowls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowls). The games are very similar and typically people that like one like the other.
Common mistake, but lawn bowling is very different than bocce. Bocce balls are uniform spheres that you can either roll or lob. They travel in a straight line. Lawn bowling balls are oblate spheroids that are weighted on one side so that they will always curve in a certain direction (more for light throws, so you can draw around a guard like in curling). They are always rolled. So it really is a lot more like curling than bocce, though granted there is nothing analogous to sweeping.
