trapshooting

What does trapshooting mean?

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

How many syllables are in trapshooting?

trapshooting has 3 syllables and divides as trap-shoo-ting under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for trapshooting?

Close synonyms include skeet, skeet shooting. 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 trapshooting a common word?

trapshooting 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for trapshooting come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.