shooting

About 10.79 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Moving or growing quickly

   Shooting beams of light played over the sea.

2. adjective Of a pain, sudden and darting

   I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.

3. noun an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon

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

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

   I take part in shooting at the local archery club.

5. noun a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms
6. noun the act of one who, or that which, shoots

   the shooting of rays of light

7. noun a sensation of darting pain

   a shooting in one's head

8. noun filming

Similar words

sniping gunshot marksmanship shooter bullet gunfire skeet gunnery rifle shelling

Often followed by

at of and the in a up down was

Word family

shootings