skeet shooting
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- noun
- /skit ˈʃuːtɪŋ/
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- So if I want to go skeet shooting, I borrow guns from friends.
- go skeet shooting
- skeet shooting lesson
- offer skeet shooting
And so out here we went to some skeet shooting and and it was fun, man, I'd never done it.
- And so out here we went to some skeet shooting and and it was fun, man, I'd never done it.
Examples
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Did some skeet shooting with my dad a few times, but, no, I never went hunting.
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Highlights: skeet shooting and late-night swimming in the Pacific.
Blog text (24) -
I believe you had a nice day of skeet shooting with him.
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"My wife here is from an old Virginia family, and they do things like skeet shooting on a Saturday afternoon."
Fiction book (1991) -
Look, Drew, want to go skeet shooting with us?
Fiction book (1991) -
For example, going fishing and skeet shooting!
Blog text (27) -
And so out here we went to some skeet shooting and and it was fun, man, I'd never done it.
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Apparently, the skeet shooting I did in college as part of hunter's safety paid off.
Blog text (6) -
Maybe you want to go on a skeet shooting retreat outside of Reno.
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My dad took me skeet shooting at the local range last weekend.
Synonyms
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A sport where people shoot at clay targets thrown into the air like birds
A sport where people shoot at small clay targets sent into the air like flying birds
How Difficult
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun-noun compound is directly compositional: 'skeet' names the discipline (shooting at airborne clay targets) and 'shooting' denotes the act of firing, so together they mean shooting in the skeet discipline. There is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift—though 'skeet' is a specialised word that a B1 learner may not know, if they know both constituents the overall meaning is immediately derivable.
Etymology
Skeet shooting began when people wanted to copy birds in flight, so they fired at small clay targets thrown into the air and tried to hit them. One popular story says the word skeet comes from an old Norwegian word for 'shoot', so skeet shooting simply means 'shooting' those clay targets and today refers to the sport of hitting flying clay targets.