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shooting

Syllables: shoot·ing/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/

shooting adjective: moving or growing quickly. Also the present participle and gerund of shoot.

Adjective

shooting

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

Noun

shooting (countable and uncountable, plural shootings)

  1. (countable) an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon
    • Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
    • 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...2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5
  2. (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.2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5
    • I take part in shooting at the local archery club.
  3. a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms
  4. the act of one who, or that which, shoots
    • the shooting of rays of light
  5. a sensation of darting pain
    • a shooting in one's head
  6. filming

Also used as

shooting is also the present participle and gerund of shoot.

shooting meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

shooting in Hindi

शूटिंग

shooting in Tamil

படப்பிடிப்பு, துப்பாக்கிச் சூடு

shooting in Marathi

गोळीबार, शूटिंग

shooting in Urdu

شوٹنگ, گولیاں چلانا
More languagesFewer languages
shooting in Bengali
শুটিং, শ্যুটিং
shooting in Telugu
షూటింగ్
shooting in Malayalam
ഷൂട്ടിംഗ്, വെടിവയ്പ്പ്
shooting in Kannada
ಶೂಟಿಂಗ್
shooting in Punjabi
ਸ਼ੂਟਿੰਗ
shooting in Gujarati
શૂટિંગ, ગોળીબાર, ગોળીબારી
shooting in Odia
ସୁଟିଂ, ଗୁଳି ଚାଳନା, ଶୁଟିଂ
shooting in Nepali
सुटिङ, गोली हानाहान, गोली चलाउँदै
shooting in Tagalog
pamamaril
shooting in Arabic
رِمَايَة rimāyah

Examples of shooting in a sentence

  • The soldier took his gun to the shooting range to zero its aim.
  • Phrases such as officer-involved shooting are often criticized as examples of passive voice.
  • The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and started shooting anyone he could.

All 40 example sentences with shooting

Synonyms of shooting

Forms of shooting

pluralshootings

Plural of shooting: shootings

Origin of shooting

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”).

Words formed from shooting

Phrases with shooting

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Words that rhyme with shooting

Questions about shooting

What does shooting mean?
Shooting means moving or growing quickly.
What is shooting in Hindi?
Shooting in Hindi is शूटिंग. See Shooting meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is shooting?
Shooting can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce shooting?
Shooting is pronounced /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/.

Words near shooting in the dictionary

  1. shoothouse
  2. shoothouses
  3. shootie
  4. shooties
  5. shootin'
  6. shooting
  7. shooting a rope
  8. shooting an elephant with a BB gun
  9. shooting and crying
  10. shooting around
  11. shooting back

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shooting (page history and authors); shooting (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooting (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooting (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooting (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooting (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooting (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooting (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooting (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooting (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooting (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooting (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooting (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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