Definition of Shooting

Shooting

of Shoot

The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.

A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.

A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.

Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.

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Shooting Quotations

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
Che Guevara

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
William S. Burroughs

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
Charles Bukowski

When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.
Kate Moss

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.
Steve Irwin

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
Larry David

I'm going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting 'Star Wars'. I don't know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her - that seems like a bunch of stress right there.
Selena Gomez

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
Buffalo Bill

Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.
Aziz Ansari

I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.
Paris Hilton

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.
Shaquille O'Neal

Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time.
Mike Myers

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
Annie Leibovitz

I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.
Dane Cook

Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.
Spike Lee

In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time.
Debbie Allen

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.
Tommy Chong

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
Martin Scorsese

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.
Norman Jewison

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.
Gloria Swanson

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley

Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.
Manfred von Richthofen

I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.
Johnny Weissmuller

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P. G. Wodehouse

TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
Sharon Stone

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.
Victoria Abril

To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing.
Josh Holloway

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Shooting Translations

shooting in French is tir, prise de vues, tirant, larguer
shooting in Italian is sparare
shooting in Spanish is tiroteo
shooting in Swedish is skytte

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