How would you say "I like to go bowling" and other suru verbs? I would like to learn how to say "I like to go bowling" rather than "I like bowling." That is, I want to emphasize that I like to do it, rather than that I like the sport in general. I believe would be how you'd say "I like bowling (the sport)" but not necessarily that you like to do it yourself. I see that is a suru verb. Does that mean that I should change it to a verb and then noun-ify it with as in ? Or would this be unnatural because is already a noun?

I don't know why is categorized as a suru-verb in jisho.org, but sport names are generally just nouns in Japanese. Some English sport names are based on verbs ("to ski", "to fence", etc.), but they are still nouns in Japanese. You have to say **** , **** and so on in formal and standard Japanese. (But, as always, can be omitted in colloquial language.)

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> I like bowling. (unspecific)
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> I like (to go) to bowl. (i.e., actually playing it myself)

If you want to be very explicit for some reason, you can add ("actually"). For example:

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By the way, you can safely nominalize a (true) suru-verb with , too. For example, and are both perfectly fine.