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bowhunting

bowhunting

2 5.1
Hunting animals with a bow and arrows instead of a gun
  • noun
  • /ˈboʊˌhʌntɪŋ/
  • US
translation icon : caza con arco
  • She practiced her skills in bowhunting to prepare for the upcoming hunting season.
  • bowhunting season
  • bowhunting for deer
  • bowhunting tag

Examples

  • Congressman Ryan is the first candidate for high office who not only knows the business of archery and bowhunting, but is a bowhunter.

    Blog text (21)

  • He can discuss archery and bowhunting equipment in detail.

    Blog text (21)

  • By the middle of August, he was up to 3 1/2 miles, which prepared him for his annual bowhunting trip to Colorado at the end of August.

    Blog text (31)

  • I checked in on the Bowhunting forum I used to frequent until the stupidity got too deep.

    Blog text (15)

  • He did a lot of bowhunting, spending long contemplative days in his tree stand.

    Blog text (9)

  • -Bowhunting?

    The Weather Man (2005)

  • A bowhunting trip in the wilds of Alaska capsizes into a battle to survive in brown bear country.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • As I walked up to the first deer I'd killed in a couple of years, I thought about how much I'd missed bowhunting and close encounters.

    Blog text (6)

  • Next year, I guarantee I will get a ladder stand again and chain it up, because this blind's nice, but I don't think it's the best for bowhunting in this area.

    Blog text (31)

  • In the quiet woods, I spent the weekend bowhunting for whitetail deer with my friends.

Synonyms

hunting
vsbowhunting
360 1.0

Chasing and killing wild animals for food, fur, or sport

uses a bow and arrows rather than firearms

Surface Forms

bowhunting singular
bowhuntings plural

Morphology

bowhunting = bow + hunt (transparent) = bow + hunt + ing

The compound 'bow' + 'hunt' straightforwardly means hunting using a bow, and adding '-ing' forms the noun for the activity.

Etymology

The word bowhunting is made from bow and hunting. A bow is a 'curved weapon' for shooting arrows and hunting means 'chasing animals', so bowhunting is hunting animals with a bow and arrows.