(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.
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(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.