shooting

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of shoot

Noun

• An instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon.
• The sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon.
• A district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms.
• The act of one who, or that which, shoots.
• A sensation of darting pain.

Origin

• 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").