Archery

300px|thumb|Traditional target arrow (top) and replica medieval arrow (bottom) thumb|Modern arrow with plastic fletchings and nock

thumb|upright=1.2|Archery competition in June 1983 at Mönchengladbach, [[West Germany]]

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goal in archery and shooting and other sports

archery from horseback

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thumb|Japanese bowstring (tsuru) and woven bowstring holder (tsurumaki).

projectile or arrow used in a crossbow

alt=|thumb|320x320px|Bowhunter in Utah Bowhunting (or bow hunting) is the practice of hunting game animals by archery. Many indigenous peoples have employed the technique as their primary hunting method for thousands of years, and it has survived into contemporary use for sport and hunting.

thumb|150px|Feather fletching – these are shield cut with barred red hen feathers and a solid white cock. Fletching is the fin-shaped aerodynamic stabilization device attached on arrows, crossbow bolts, darts, and javelins, typically made from light semi-flexible materials such as feathers or bark. Each piece of such a device is a fletch, also known as a flight or feather. A fletcher is a person who attaches fletchings to the shaft of arrows. Fletchers were traditionally associated with the Worshipful Company of Fletchers, a guild in the City of London.

modern competitive sport

poison applied to arrow heads or darts for hunting and warfare

phenomenon in archery

game of skill

ring that is specially designed to be worn on the thumb; also a term for a ring that protects the thumb during archery

alt=Night bowfishing|thumb|367x367px|Modern sport bowfishing often occurs at night, shown here on a specialized boat: raised bow (watercraft)|bow platform with powerful [[floodlights to expose and attract fish during the placid condition of night, often with several bowfishers covering different sectors.]] Bowfishing is a fishing technique that uses specialized archery equipment to impale and retrieve fish. A bowfisher will use a bow or crossbow to shoot fish through the water surface with a barbed arrow tethered to a line, and then manually retrieve the line and arrow back, in modern times us

1909 sculpture by Antoine Bourdelle

type of arrowhead

thumb|A Dutch Republic|Dutch bracer from the late 16th century, made of ivory and intricately decorated A bracer (or arm-guard) is a strap or sheath, commonly made of leather, stone or plastic, that covers the ventral (inside) surface of an archer's bow-holding arm. It protects the archer's forearm against injury by accidental whipping from the bowstring or the fletching of the arrow while shooting, and also prevents the loose sleeve from catching the bowstring. They normally only cover part of the forearm, but full-length bracers extending to the upper arm are also available, and other areas

Spot combining bow shooting and running

center of a target

Sport

Archery equipment

team sport