skeet shooting

1. 1.

   the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird

   Synonymsskeettrapshooting

   Broadershoot

Questions about skeet shooting

What does skeet shooting mean?

skeet shooting means "the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird".

What is another word for skeet shooting?

Close synonyms include skeet, trapshooting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is skeet shooting a common word?

skeet shooting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.