Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bowling \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.
Wiktionary
n. A building which contains lanes for bowling.
WordNet
n. a building that contains several alleys for bowling
a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins [syn: alley, skittle alley]
Usage examples of "bowling alley".
She liked him more than anyone she had dated before-but then how could she not like someone who would take her to both a bowling alley and a symphony?
A line of maples and birches separating Memorial Park from Kansas Street were knocked down like so many pins in a bowling alley.
But he was in the Merchant Marines, and he made good enough money to buy her that bowling alley and let her live in the house I was born in.
A bowling alley or drive-in movie theater would have been most welcome.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the sun-reddened, stubble-headed form of Dale Estrem and two other farmers looking at them through the glass front of the bowling alley.
On that side of Arden, the shops drop away fast, after you pass the bowling alley and the restaurants and a few houses, and you are back in open corn country.
From the racket I jedged they was a bowling alley in there and the gents was bowling.