bowler vs player

bowler and player both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bowler	Yes	No	No	No
player	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, player is a hypernym of bowler; that is, player is a word with a broader meaning than bowler:

Other hypernyms of bowler include participant.

bowler (noun)	player (noun)
a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim	a theatrical performer
a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins	a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
a cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket	someone who plays a music as a profession
	a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously
	someone who takes part in an activity