shooting

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shooting

/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/

Rhymes with -uːtɪŋ

Where it comes from

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

adjective

Moving or growing quickly Shooting beams of light played over the sea.
Similar: darting
Of a pain, sudden and darting I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.
Similar: splitting

noun shootings

countable an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
uncountable the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate.
countable, uncountable a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms
countable, uncountable the act of one who, or that which, shoots the shooting of rays of light
countable, uncountable a sensation of darting pain a shooting in one's head
countable, uncountable filming

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of shoot; forcefully projecting

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: sniping, gunshot, marksmanship, shooter, bullet, gunfire, skeet, gunnery, rifle, shelling, gun, shoot-out, firefight, crossfire, shootout, launch

Translations

Every language

noun instance of shooting

Español	tiroteo, balacera, baleadura
한국어	사격 sagyeok, 발포 balpo
日本語	射撃 shageki
中文	射擊 /射击 shèjī
Kiswahili	upigaji risasi
Português	tiroteio
Français	tir, fusillade
Deutsch	Schießen, Schießerei
Italiano	sparatoria
Русский	стрельба́ strelʹbá, пальба́ palʹbá, перестре́лка perestrélka, шу́тинг šúting

noun the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon

Español	tiro
한국어	사격 sagyeok
Português	tiro
Русский	стрельба́ strelʹbá
العربية	رِمَايَة rimāya

noun filming

Español	rodaje

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BibTeX

@misc{shooting_2026,
  title = {shooting},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shooting},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}