tenpins vs bowling

tenpins and bowling both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tenpins	Yes	No	No	No
bowling	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bowling is a hypernym of tenpins; that is, bowling is a word with a broader meaning than tenpins:

tenpins: bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins
bowling: a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them

tenpins (noun)	bowling (noun)
bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins	a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them
	the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc
	(cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman