# shooting

Pronunciation: say "SHOO-ting" /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/

## Noun

1. An occasion on which a gun or other weapon is fired, especially one in which someone is wounded or killed.
   - Simple: A single event where someone fires a gun or other weapon, often hurting or killing someone.
   - _Witnesses heard several shots before the shooting ended._
   - _A shooting at the festival sent the crowd running for cover._
3. The act or activity of firing a gun or other weapon, including as a sport at targets, clays, or game.
   - Simple: Firing guns or other weapons, for example as a sport.
   - _He practices shooting at the range every weekend._
   - _The estate offers fishing, riding, and shooting to its guests._
4. The process of recording footage on camera for a film or television production.
   - Simple: The work of recording video for a movie or TV show.
   - _Shooting wrapped on the final scene late last night._
   - _Bad weather pushed the location shooting back by a week._
6. The sensation of a sudden, darting pain that seems to travel through the body.
   - Simple: A feeling of sharp pain that moves quickly through the body.
   - _As she reached for the top shelf, she felt a sharp shooting in her shoulder._
   - _The doctor asked whether the shootings in his arm came and went or lasted all day._
5. The act or skill of sending the ball toward the basket or goal in an attempt to score, in sports such as basketball and soccer.
   - Simple: Trying to get the ball into the basket or goal to score, in games like basketball or soccer.
   - _The guard's three-point shooting kept the team in the game through the fourth quarter._
   - _The striker has speed and vision, but his shooting from outside the box still needs work._

## Verb

2. Present participle of shoot, the -ing form used in verb phrases such as is shooting or kept shooting, in any of the verb's meanings. — present participle and gerund of shoot; forcefully projecting
   - Simple: Present participle of shoot, used in phrases like "is shooting" or "kept shooting", with any meaning of the verb.
   - _The volcano kept shooting ash high into the sky._
   - _Water was shooting from the broken pipe under pressure._

## Adjective

7. Of a pain, sudden and darting, seeming to move rapidly through part of the body.
   - Simple: Describing a sharp pain that comes fast and moves through the body.
   - _Shooting pains woke her several times during the night._
   - _He felt shooting pains in his knee every time he climbed the stairs._
8. Moving or growing with great speed.
   - Simple: Moving or growing very fast.
   - _We watched a shooting star streak across the night sky._
   - _From the hilltop we counted a dozen shooting stars streaking over the dark valley during the meteor shower._

## Other meanings

- (noun) A district or tract of land over which people hold the right to hunt game with firearms.

## Origin

From Middle English 'shoting', from Old English 'scotung' ("shooting"), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō: essentially 'shoot' plus '-ing'. It is related to Dutch 'schieting', German 'Erschießung', and Swedish 'skjutning'.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/shooting (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).