archery
- noun
- /ˈɑːrkəri/
- Immediately after their visits to the mills, both emperors attended archery banquets at imperial parks.
- archery contest
- sport of archery
- horse archery
Larry Bader was a cookware salesman and archery enthusiast from Akron, OH.
- Larry Bader was a cookware salesman and archery enthusiast from Akron, OH.
- So in the case of the Paralympics, archery, how, what are the rules about that?
- These societies would all attempt to create mounted horsemen who used archery and they did a good job.
- There's a lake for canoeing, there's archery, horseback riding sounds very fancy camping.
- One thing I love about what I do is that I'm constantly learning something new, and in this case it was archery.
Examples
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I’m pretty good at archery.
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So I took her to an archery range in Bolingbrook.
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Oh, well, I go to archery camp every summer.
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Now we go to the archery field.
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I learned archery at a summer camp.
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The three main events are archery, wrestling, and horse racing.
Academic text (2004) -
My husband's profession is the owner of an archery business for 32 years.
Blog text (17) -
I'd much rather have been learning archery and canoeing.
Fiction book (2002) -
Next, Banchiro practices archery, horsemanship, and swimming before his academic courses in the afternoon.
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At the summer camp, I learned the fundamentals of archery and honed my skills in hitting targets.
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Etymology
Archery comes from an old Latin word arcus, which means 'bow'. The person who uses a bow is an archer, so archery is the skill or sport of using a 'bow' and shooting arrows.