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 used for hunting and combat. In modern times, it is mainly a competitive sport and recreational activity. A person who practices archery is typically called an archer, bowman, or toxophilite.
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Archers by Adam Buck.
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Picture of an archery competition at Mönchengladbach in Germany, taken in June 1983.
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Archery is the national sport of Bhutan and is practised with great enthusiasm since ages in traditi...
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Compound bow for hunting
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Rikbaktsa archer competes at Brazil's Indigenous Games
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For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, whi...
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the archery champion practices for the next championship
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Finger tab, used in archery to protect the fingers holding the arrow and pulling the chord
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An icon to represent "global thinking".
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artwork in AAAGM collection
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On red field from base emerging man shooting with bow, fur hat on head, axe on belt; all silver.
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Young prince Maximilian hunting for birds as a horsed archer, depicted in the Weisskunig
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Member of The Montgomery Levy displaying archery in mediaeval times
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Mongol archers featured in Compendium of Chronicles of Rashiduldin Hamadani, Herat, Afghanistan; aro...
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This is an image with the theme "Home + Habitat in Africa" from:
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Olympic Rings without "rims" (gaps between the rings), As used, eg. in the logos of the 2008 and 201...
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Clay Hayes drawing a yew selfbow. Selfbows are made from a single piece of wood.
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release aid for archers
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