shooting

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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”).

shooting

shooting (usually uncountable, plural shootings)

(countable) An instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon.
- 2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5:
  Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.
Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
(uncountable) The sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon.
- 2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5:
  Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate.
I take part in shooting at the local archery club.
A district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms.
The act of one who, or that which, shoots.
the shooting of rays of light
A sensation of darting pain.
a shooting in one's head

instance of shooting

Armenian: կրակ (hy) (krak)
Belarusian: стральба́ f (stralʹbá), страляні́на f (straljanína)
Bulgarian: стрелба́ (bg) f (strelbá)
Catalan: tiroteig (ca) m, afusellament (ca) m
Cebuano: pagpamusil
Chinese:
Mandarin: 射擊／射击 (zh) (shèjī)
Czech: střelba (cs) f
Danish: skudangreb
Dutch: schietpartij (nl) f
Esperanto: pafado
Finnish: ampuminen (fi)
French: tir (fr) m, fusillade (fr) f
German: Schießen (de) n, Schießerei (de) f
Hungarian: lövöldözés (hu)
Icelandic: skotárás (is) f
Ido: pafado (io)
Ingrian: ampumiin
Irish: lámhach m
Italian: sparatoria (it) f
Japanese: 射撃 (ja) (しゃげき, shageki)
Karachay-Balkar: атыш (atış)
Korean: 사격 (ko) (sagyeok), 발포 (ko) (balpo)
Malay: please add this translation if you can
Maori: puhanga
Norman: tith'thie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skyteangrep
Polish: strzelanie (pl) n, palba (pl) f
Portuguese: tiroteio (pt) m
Russian: стрельба́ (ru) f (strelʹbá), пальба́ (ru) f (palʹbá), перестре́лка (ru) f (perestrélka) (between parties, multiple shots), шу́тинг (ru) m (šúting)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пуцање n

Roman: pucanje n
Slovak: streľba f
Slovene: streljanje n, strel (sl) m
Spanish: tiroteo (es) m
Swahili: upigaji risasi
Swedish: skjutning (sv) c, skottlossning (sv) c
Tagalog: pamamaril
Ukrainian: стрільба́ (uk) f (strilʹbá), стріляни́на f (striljanýna)

the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon

shooting

Of sudden piercing pain

shooting m (plural shootings)