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shooting

 noun
     
Related topics: Other Sports
shoot‧ing
1 [countable] a situation in which someone is injured or killed by a gun:
His brother was killed in a shooting incident last year.
the accidental shooting of a child
2 [uncountable]DSO the sport of shooting animals and birds with guns:
The shooting party set off shortly before dawn.
3 [uncountable] the process of taking photographs or making a film:
We had two weeks of rehearsals before shooting began.
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