bowling

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: bowl=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

bowling, n. 

 The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.  [1913 Webster]

Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bowling, n. the game of bowls as a sport or recreation.

Idiom

bowling-alley
1 a long enclosure for skittles or tenpin bowling.
2 a building containing these. bowling-crease Cricket the line from behind which a bowler delivers the ball. bowling-green a lawn used for playing bowls.