(n.) The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.
(n.) Archers, or bowmen, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) • €200 for three nights and free access to two archery centres, tiroler-adler.at Road cycling in Ireland Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wild Atlantic Cycling is a new, small travel company running cycling holidays along the Wild Atlantic Way , the route from the southernmost to northernmost tip of Ireland (Mizen to Malin).
(2) The traditional hotel, surrounded by mountains and at the head of the Pillersee Valley, is surrounded by an impressive set of archery courses, where packages offering plenty of time to learn – or perfect – bow-and-arrow skills can be booked.
(3) • From £150 per adult, including camping equipment, naturetravels.co.uk Archery in Austria Facebook Twitter Pinterest For the more target-oriented among us, there are few places that offer such a perfect set-up as the Tiroler Adler hotel in Waidring, Austria.
(4) A standard archery target was used to score tosses.
(5) Essential measures for archery safety include use of archery protective gear, use of a light-weight bow, conditioning of the forearm flexor muscles, and modifications in drawing the bowstring.
(6) Three different forms of enthesopathy involved the arm, principally the elbow, and may be tentatively correlated with javelin throwing, wood cutting, and archery.
(7) She is also close to former Times journalist and education secretary Michael Gove and accompanied him to the London Olympics archery competition in the summer.
(8) When they find him he gets them doing archery and dressing up.
(9) Methanolic extracts of hard and soft varieties of the sponge Verongia archeri were found to contain similar compounds.
(10) The result delivered a timely boost to Team GB after a quiet start to the games saw medal hopes in judo and archery go unfulfilled, and it was welcomed by sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe: "This is a great start to the Beijing Olympics for Team GB and I have no doubt this medal will fire up the rest of the team to do their best in the next two weeks.
(11) Two brominated tyrosine metabolites, fistularin 3 [1] and a new compound 11-ketofistularin 3 [2] have been isolated from a marine sponge, Aplysina archeri.
(12) Beta-blocking agents have been shown to reduce anxiety, hand tremor, and heart rate in precision sports like archery, but susceptible persons may experience serious adverse effects.
(13) An electronic arrow movement detector was used to accurately locate the muscle activity associated with release of the arrow during shooting in archery.
(14) The purpose of the present research was to determine whether EEG biofeedback training could improve archery performance as well as self-reported measures of concentration and self-confidence.
(15) Technical advancements in target archery have been extended to widespread use of "scopes" which magnify the target.
(16) A. archeri contained an extremely long chain fatty acid tentatively characterized as dotricontaenoic (32:1) acid.
(17) Around 20 police officers were bussed in at 6am on Tuesday to the north London venue where the archery competition will take place, the Guardian was told, and stayed there for 10 hours before being replaced by others.
(18) Indoor archery performance provided scores identical to the goal of the task and unaffected by environmental conditions or other competitors.
(19) Twenty-one elite-calibre archers (M = 12, F = 9) were investigated concerning all past and present archery-related shoulder injuries, using a questionnaire and physical examination.
(20) About 20 police officers were bussed in at 6am on Wednesday to the north London venue where the archery competition will take place, the Guardian was told, and stayed there for 10 hours before being replaced by others.
Arrow
Definition:
(n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
(2) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
(3) In 2, 178 tattooed male conscripts in ages of 19-24 years, the most frequent tattoo was a heart mark or a mark of heart and arrow.
(4) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.
(5) An arrow poison prepared by traditional methods from Acokanthera schimperi in the Maasai plains of Kenya was shown to contain acolongifloroside K as its major active principle, as well as smaller amounts of ouabain and acovenoside A.
(6) Added meaning was given to the design copy task through the use of stimulus figures that were representational of familiar objects--an arrow, a house, and a face.
(7) In Experiment 1, arrow cues were located centrally, near the fixation point.
(8) It’s a bit of a trek to get there: a few kilometres drive along a dirt road and then a short walk, with arrows painted on stones.
(9) Six edentulous patients were each provided with two complete dentures and the relation of the jaws to each other was determined by means of both the conventional checkbite and a combined Gerber arrow-angle registration.
(10) Conservationists and politicians have called on the EU to ban the import of lion heads, paws and skins as hunters’ trophies from African countries that cannot prove their lion populations are sustainable, following the killing of Zimbabwe’s most famous lion by a European hunter with a bow and arrow.
(11) After Branislav Ivanovic and Markovic had squandered decent chances, Kolarov doubled Serbia's lead with a 25-yard shot that arrowed into the top corner.
(12) Here, then, is Draghinomics' second arrow: to reduce the drag on growth from fiscal consolidation while maintaining lower deficits and greater debt sustainability.
(13) To help distinguish between these competing interpretations, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded to lateralized flashes delivered to visual field locations precued by a central arrow (valid stimuli) or not precued (invalid stimuli).
(14) Of these devices, the most widely used external central venous catheters include: the Davol (Hickman, Broviac, Leonard catheters, Arrow-Howes multi-lumen catheters, and the Groshong that requires no heparinization.
(15) This study examined the relationships between postural sway, aiming time, the cardiac cycle time and the placement of the first finger movement within the electrocardiac cycle, with the quality of the arrow shot.
(16) These villains have limited aspirations, and the man in the white hat has a limited arsenal of era-appropriate weaponry: a gun, a bow and arrow, a few grenades, maybe even a tank.
(17) With an exquisite “no look” pass, Fuchs delivered the ball Vardy arrowed beyond David de Gea to score for the 11th successive Premier League match .
(18) Two commercially available immunofluorescence monoclonal antibody (MAB) reagents (Bartels, Baxter Healthcare, Issaquah, WA; and Symex, Broken Arrow, OK) were evaluated as a means for detecting parainfluenza virus (PIV) both in shell-vial cultures and directly in clinical specimens.
(19) In the color condition the respective stimuli were a pair of solid red circles, four white paired-arrows, and a pair of white plus and minus signs.
(20) The design of the tube was the only factor found to be a significant determinant of the extrusion of the tube, although the experience of the surgeon affected the extrusion rate of the Arrow tube.