shooting

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• Rhymes: -uːtɪŋ

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 (a person) with a gun.

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

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

Derived terms

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

Translations

instance of shooting

Armenian: կրակ (hy) (krak) Catalan: tiroteig (ca) m., afusellament (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 射擊 (zh), 射击 (zh) (shèjī) Czech: střelba (cs) f. Dutch: schietpartij (nl) f. Esperanto: pafado (eo)

Finnish: ampuminen (fi) French: tir (fr) m., fusillade (fr) f. German: Schießen (de) n., Schießerei (de) f. Ido: pafado (io) Japanese: 射撃 (ja) (しゃげき, shageki) Russian: стрельба (ru) (strel'bá) f., пальба (ru) (pal'bá) f.

the sport or activity of firing a gun

Finnish: ammunta (fi)

Russian: стрельба (ru) (strel'bá) f.

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