The phrase "a bit of poking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a small amount of prodding or investigation, either literally or figuratively.
Example: "After a bit of poking around in the archives, I found the information we needed."
Alternatives: "a little bit of probing" or "some gentle nudging".
For casual visitors, this means a bit of poking around, and patience may be required.
Also here are works that require a bit of poking around, which in the context of a private house feels transgressive.
So he headed to South America, and soon enough a bit of poking around by a Paraguayan roadside brought him face-to-antenna with his "extinct" ant.
It took a bit of poking around the code to find it, but modder LordZedd finally found the missing egg.
As far as I can tell after a bit of poking around, Amazon doesn't heavily favor its own private labels in Prime Wardrobe's collections.
They certainly seem to be taking this new concept seriously though — a bit of poking around reveals that Oakley filed a patent for a "wearable high resolution audio visual interface" last September.
After a fair bit of poking and prodding, they were able to dig a full copy of the webOS 1.0.2 ROM, and proceeded to have at it.
I think it's another one of those where it's just a bit of fun, poking fun at the idea of going to a club and chat-up lines.
Initially treating the conflict as a bit of fun, poking around behind enemy lines and spying on old Jerry, he is captured and taken to a concentration camp in Poland where his eyes are well and truly opened to the horrors humanity is capable of.
It may not seem like the most dynamic of museum exhibits: visitors stare through a glass pane at an inert, soggy wooden crate with a bit of straw poking out the top.
He has a bit of white shirt poking out under his blue top - that is, he is decked in red, white and blue, echoing the tricolour that flies over the barricades.
