shoot 'em up
English · Français · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
shoot 'em up
noun shoot 'em ups · shoot-em-up · shoot-'em-up · shoot them up
- A piece of media which depicts considerable gunplay. My wife won't watch this movie; it's a shoot ’em up.
-
A video game in which one plays as a character moving and shooting in an autoscrolling two-dimensional world, with emphasis on dodging bullets and predicting enemy movement patterns.
Bullet Hell: DoDonPachi exemplifies the term better than any other shoot 'em up, providing a snowstorm of fiery pixels to both simultaneously dodge and eliminate.
Similar: shmup
Translations
Every language
noun video game in which one plays as a character moving and shooting in an autoscrolling two-dimensional world
| 中文 | 打飛機游戲 /打飞机游戏 dǎ fēijī yóuxì, STG, 飛行射擊游戲 /飞行射击游戏 fēixíng shèjī yóuxì |
|---|
Talk about this word "shoot 'em up." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/shoot%20'em%20up. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. shoot 'em up. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/shoot%20'em%20up "shoot 'em up." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/shoot%20'em%20up.Cite this
@misc{shoot_em_up_2026,
title = {shoot 'em up},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shoot%20'em%20up},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
