Shooting

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːtɪŋ

Verb

1. Present participle of shoot

Derived terms

• crap shooting
• shooting script
• shooting star

Full definition of shooting

Noun

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.
3. The act of one who, or that which, shoots.the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light
4. A sensation of darting pain.a shooting in one's head

Derived terms

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

Anagrams

• hootings
• soothing