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Skeet Shooting

Definition: Skeet Shooting

Skeet Shooting

Noun

1. The sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Skeet Shooting

Synonyms: skeet (n), trapshooting (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Skeet shooting

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Skeet shooting is a recreational and competitive activity where participants attempt to destroy clay disks flung into the air at high speed. The weapon of choice for this task is a high quality shotgun. The use of clay disks replaced the more traditional target of live birds, as a cheaper and more reliable alternative. The event is in part meant to simulate the action of bird hunting.

Skeet shooting has been an Olympic event since 1896. Prominent Olympians:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Skeet shooting."

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Crosswords: Skeet Shooting

Specialty definitions using "skeet shooting": MANAGER, GUN CLUB, manager, rangerange master. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Skeet Shooting

DomainTitle

Books

  • Skeet Shooting With D.Lee Braun: A Remington Sportsman's Library Book (reference)

  • The Gun Digest Book of Trap and Skeet Shooting (reference)

  • Trap and Skeet Shooting With D. Lee Braun (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Skeet Shooting

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Skeet Shooting

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

skeet shooting

166

skeet shooting game

18

skeet shooting supply

4

skeet shooting accessory

4

skeet shooting equipment

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Skeet Shooting

Language Translations for "skeet shooting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

スキート射' (schema, scheme, ski lift, ski rack, skier). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

スキートしゃ'き. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eetskay ootingshay

   

Russian 

  

стрельба по тарелкам (skeet). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

havaya atılan hedefleri vurma (trap shooting). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Skeet Shooting

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-i-k-n-o-o-s-s-t-t"

-3 letters: theogonies.

-4 letters: egestions, ghostiest, goethites, hessonite, histogens, honestest, honesties, noisettes, oogenesis, sheetings, shootings, sightseen, snootiest, stenokies, teethings, teosintes, tightness.

-5 letters: egestion, egotists, essonite, ethnoses, genoises, ghettoes, goethite, goosiest, gothites, histogen, histones, hognoses, hokiness, hookiest, hootiest, isogones, isotones, noisette, oogenies, osteites, seething, settings, sheeting, shooting, shotting, sightsee, soothest, soothing, sootiest, steeking, stoniest, stooking, teething.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Skeet Shooting


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6B 65 65 74      53 68 6F 6F 74 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101011 01100101 01100101 01110100 00100000 01010011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#107 &#101 &#101 &#116 &#32 &#83 &#104 &#111 &#111 &#116 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006B 0065 0065 0074      0053 0068 006F 006F 0074 0069 006E 0067

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

537771718625374818186758073

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Skeet Shooting"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", японский, японец, Japonca

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", японский, японец, Japonca

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеロシア語 , ロシア", русский, Rusça

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeтурецкий, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationанглийский, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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