skeet

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If you know exactly where the skeet is going, hitting it is relatively simple (if you can aim).

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  1. noun A form of trapshooting in which clay targets are thrown from traps to simulate birds in flight and are shot at from different stations.

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  • "Like shooting skeet, you have to find it and lead it." —  AnalogSFF,March2006
  • With skeet, clay targets are flung into the air at different angles. —  CounterPunch
  • Total number of competitors in skeet was 356; sporting clays drew 338. —  NSSF: Aiming for Accuracy
  • SCTP was launched by NSSF in 2000 to offer students in grades 12 and under an opportunity to compete as a team in trap, skeet, sporting clays and the international versions of trap and skeet. —  NSSF: Aiming for Accuracy
  • If you know exactly where the skeet is going, hitting it is relatively simple (if you can aim). —  CNET News.com
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  1. Alteration of shoot.

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  1. Middle English, also skete, sket, from Icelandic skjōtr, swift, fleet, from skjōta, shoot: see shoot.
  2. Middle English, also skete; from skeet, a.
  3. Prob., like shote, ult. from Anglo-Saxon sceóta, a trout, from sceótan, shoot: see shoot.
  4. Origin obscure.
 

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