Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows. The word comes from the Latin arcus, meaning bow. Historically, archery has been...
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Archery, or the use of bow and arrows, was probably developed in Africa by the later Middle Stone Age (approx. 70,000 years ago). It is documented as...
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Bow and arrow (redirect from Bow (archery))
firearms. Today, bows and arrows are mostly used for hunting and sports. Archery is the art, practice, or skill of using bows to shoot arrows. A person...
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Archery had its debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics and has been contested in 18 Olympiads. 105 nations have competed in the Olympic archery events, with...
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Mounted archery is a form of archery that involves shooting arrows while on horseback. A horse archer is a person who does mounted archery. Archery has occasionally...
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Combat archery, sometimes known as battle archery, is a sport similar to dodgeball, paintball or Nerf war played with bows and arrows tipped with foam...
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millennia, Chinese archery (simplified Chinese: 中华射艺; traditional Chinese: 中華射藝; pinyin: zhōnghuá shè yì, the art of Chinese archery) has played a pivotal...
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Bear Archery is a manufacturer and marketer of bows and archery equipment located in Gainesville, Florida, owned by Escalade Sports. The company was founded...
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Zen in the Art of Archery (Zen in der Kunst des Bogenschießens) is a book by German philosophy professor Eugen Herrigel, published in 1948, about his...
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2024 Archery World Cup, also known as the Hyundai Archery World Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 18th edition of the international archery circuit...
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Arab archery is the traditional style of archery practiced by the Arab people of the West Asia and North Africa regions from ancient to modern times....
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The World Archery Championships are a series of competitions in Archery organised by the World Archery Federation. The first competition held under that...
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Kyūdō (redirect from Japanese archery)
Kyūdō (Japanese: 弓道) is the Japanese martial art of archery. Kyūdō is based on kyūjutsu ("art of archery"), which originated with the samurai class of feudal...
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Archery is the art, sport, practice or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows. Archery may also refer to: Archery, Georgia, an unincorporated community...
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Archery is an unincorporated community in Webster County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. The community lies about 3 miles (4.8 km) from Plains. Jimmy Carter...
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Field archery is any archery discipline that involves shooting at outdoor targets of varying and often unmarked distance, typically in woodland and rough...
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Archery in Bhutan (Dzongkha: མདའ་ (da); Wylie: daa; 'arrow,' 'archery') is the national sport of the Kingdom. Archery was declared the national sport...
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World Archery (WA, formerly Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc (FITA)) is the governing body of the sport of archery. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland...
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A butt is an archery shooting field, with mounds of earth used for the targets. The name originally referred to the targets themselves, but over time...
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The mixed team archery event is one of five archery events held at the 2024 Summer Olympics. It was held at Les Invalides, with the ranking round taking...
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The women's individual archery event is one of five archery events at the 2024 Summer Olympics. It is being held at Les Invalides. There are 64 competitors...
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The national Indian governing body of archery as a sport in India is the Archery Association of India. Deepika Kumari is the first Indian archer to achieve...
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Target archery is the most popular form of archery, in which members shoot at stationary circular targets at varying distances. All types of bow – longbow...
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The men's individual archery event is one of five archery events at the 2024 Summer Olympics. It will be held at Les Invalides. There were 64 competitors...
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This is a list of archery terms, including both the equipment and the practice. A brief description for each word or phrase is also included. Contents...
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Hoyt Archery is an American manufacturer of recurve and compound bows located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Most notable for their competition recurve bows...
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The archery competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris took place over seven days, from 25 July to 4 August, at Les Invalides. 128 archers (64...
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individual recurve archery competition at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou was held from 20 November to 24 November at Aoti Archery Range. All times are...
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competitive archery worldwide and is called target archery. A form particularly popular in Europe, North America, and South America is field archery, shot at...
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Archery at the 2022 Asian Games was held between 1 and 7 October 2023 at the Fuyang Yinhu Sports Centre in Fuyang District, Hangzhou, China, and consisted...
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