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archery

archery

28 3.9
A sport of shooting arrows with a bow at a target
  • noun
  • /ˈɑːrkəri/
translation icon : tiro con arco
  • 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.

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Examples

  • I’m pretty good at archery.

  • So I took her to an archery range in Bolingbrook.

  • Oh, well, I go to archery camp every summer.

  • Now we go to the archery field.

  • I learned archery at a summer camp.

  • 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.

  • At the summer camp, I learned the fundamentals of archery and honed my skills in hitting targets.

How Skillful

archery
28 3.9
darts
1 1.3
horseshoes
  • US
3.9

Surface Forms

archery singular
archeries plural

Morphology

archery = archer (transparent) = archer + y

The activity noun is clearly derived from the agent 'archer' with a standard '-y' nominalizing pattern indicating a collective/field of activity.

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.