different between archery vs shooting

English

Etymology

From Middle English archerie, from Old French archerie, from archier (“archer”). Equivalent to archer +? -ery.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ärch?r?, IPA^(key): /??t???i?/, /??t???i?/
• Hyphenation: arch?er?y

Noun

archery (countable and uncountable, plural archeries)

1. (uncountable) The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.
2. (countable) A group of archers.

Related terms

• archer
• bowman
• bowmanship
• toxophilite

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutung?, equivalent to shoot +? -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?t??/
• Rhymes: -u?t??
• Hyphenation: shoot?ing

Verb

shooting

1. present participle of shoot

Derived terms

• crap shooting
• shooting script
• shooting star

Noun

shooting (usually uncountable, plural shootings)

1. (countable) An instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon.

   Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.

2. (uncountable) The sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon.

   I take part in shooting at the local archery club.

3. A district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms.
4. The act of one who, or that which, shoots.

   the shooting of rays of light

5. A sensation of darting pain.

   a shooting in one's head

Derived terms

• shooting box
• shooting brake
• shooting gallery
• shooting iron
• shooting lodge
• shooting preserve
• shooting range
• shooting seat
• shooting stick
• skeet shooting
• sure as shooting
• wing shooting

Translations

Anagrams

• hootings, soothing

French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u.ti?/

Noun

shooting m (plural shootings)

1. shoot, shooting (all senses)