Bowl·ing n. The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.
  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.
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  bowling alley
       n 1: a building that contains several alleys for bowling
       2: a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins [syn:
           alley, skittle alley]