The sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird.
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Examples for "trapshooting "
Examples for "trapshooting "
1 The Olympic Club also maintains the Lakeside Country Club with a golf course and trapshooting facilities.
2 The New Yorker, May 22, 1937 P. 13 Personality of Joe Hiestand, who holds the title of North American amateur doubles trapshooting champion.
3 Trapshooting was originally developed to provide a method of practice for bird hunters, even the targets were called clay pigeons.
4 Trapshooting is a peculiar sport; the amateurs shoot for money and the professionals, who are employed by gun and powder companies shoot for trophies.
1 I found it great fun and just as relaxing as skeet shooting .
2 She now hopes to represent England in a skeet shooting competition in August.
3 It's essentially the underwater equivalent of skeet shooting , except with torpedoes.
4 He slapped the breech closed against his arm like he was skeet shooting .
5 He knows more about the philosophy of skeet shooting than about the Code of Land Laws.
1 I found it great fun and just as relaxing as skeet shooting.
2 If I hear anything, I will send word at once, by skeet . '
3 Now skeet out ez fast ez the hosse's legs will tote ye.
4 Yossarian was as bad at shooting skeet as he was at gambling.
5 She now hopes to represent England in a skeet shooting competition in August.
6 A skeet was caged on the other side, to carry a message back.
7 Shooting skeet eight hours a month was excellent training for them.
8 She headed in the other direction, out behind the skeet houses.
9 Your report so alarmed Fyn-Mah that she sent it to me by skeet .
10 It's essentially the underwater equivalent of skeet shooting, except with torpedoes.
11 Flydd sprang over the side, his eye on the wheeling skeet .
12 He slapped the breech closed against his arm like he was skeet shooting.
13 Nish fed the skeet with a couple of half-frozen rats from a bin.
14 A messenger was hurrying out through the great doors, carrying a sealed skeet packet.
15 So urgent, in fact, that it had come by skeet .
16 The skeet was gliding towards the rear of the building.
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