Archery is the sport of shooting arrows at a target. Take up archery, an archery club, an archery range.
The target has ten scoring rings, gold in the centre worth ten. Recurve is the Olympic bow and compound the one with pulleys. English longbow archery shaped medieval warfare and required a lifetime of practice — the skeletons of longbowmen are identifiable by their deformed shoulders. Note archer, fletcher, the arrow-maker, and bowyer, the bow-maker; all three are common English surnames.
1nounarcheryThe sport of shooting arrows at a target.
“At summer camp, the children tried archery and canoeing.”
archery is a sport.
Old French archerie comes from arc, a bow, from Latin arcus. Arch, arc and archery all descend from the same curve, so the sport is named after the shape of the weapon.
Old French
archerie
Middle English
archerie
English, today
archery
Built from
From Middle English archerie, from Old French archerie, from archier. From Middle English archerie, from Old French archerie, from archier (“archer”). Equivalent to archer + ery.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA