archery
noun/ˈɑːtʃəri/
/ˈɑːrtʃəri/
[uncountable]- the art or sport of shooting arrows with a bow
- He took up archery eight years ago.
- Neither had practised archery before last year.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryArchery is used before these nouns:- range
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French archerie, from archier, based on Latin arcus ‘bow’.Definitions on the go
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