Noun
shooting (countable and uncountable, plural shootings)
- (countable) an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon
- 2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5:
- 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. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.
Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
- (uncountable) the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon
- 2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5:
- 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.
I take part in shooting at the local archery club.
- a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms
- the act of one who, or that which, shoots
the shooting of rays of light
- a sensation of darting pain
a shooting in one's head
- (Philippines, film, television) filming
Translations
instance of shooting
- Armenian: կրակ (hy) (krak)
- Belarusian: стральба́ f (stralʹbá), страляні́на f (straljanína)
- Bulgarian: стрелба́ (bg) f (strelbá)
- Catalan: tiroteig (ca) m, afusellament (ca) m
- Cebuano: pagpamusil
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 射擊/射击 (zh) (shèjī)
- Czech: střelba (cs) f
- Danish: skudangreb
- Dutch: schietpartij (nl) f
- Esperanto: pafado
- Finnish: ampuminen (fi)
- French: tir (fr) m, fusillade (fr) f
- German: Schießen (de) n, Schießerei (de) f
- Hungarian: lövöldözés (hu)
- Icelandic: skotárás (is) f
- Ido: pafado (io)
- Ingrian: ampumiin
- Irish: lámhach m
- Italian: sparatoria (it) f
- Japanese: 射撃 (ja) (しゃげき, shageki)
- Karachay-Balkar: атыш (atış)
- Korean: 사격 (ko) (sagyeok), 발포 (ko) (balpo)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: puhanga
- Norman: tith'thie f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skyteangrep
- Polish: strzelanie (pl) n, palba (pl) f
- Portuguese: tiroteio (pt) m
- Russian: стрельба́ (ru) f (strelʹbá), пальба́ (ru) f (palʹbá), перестре́лка (ru) f (perestrélka) (between parties, multiple shots), шу́тинг (ru) m (šúting)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пуцање n
- Roman: pucanje n
- Slovak: streľba f
- Slovene: streljanje n, strel (sl) m
- Spanish: tiroteo (es) m, balacera (es) f, baleadura f
- Swahili: upigaji risasi
- Swedish: skjutning (sv) c, skottlossning (sv) c
- Tagalog: pamamaril
- Ukrainian: стрільба́ (uk) f (strilʹbá), стріляни́на f (striljanýna)
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the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon
Adjective
shooting
- moving or growing quickly
- Shooting beams of light played over the sea.
- of a pain, sudden and darting
- I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.