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clay pigeon

NOUN
moving target for shooting
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They simply bought a gun and ammunition and showed up at the range or clay pigeon course to figure it out.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2023

I go clay pigeon shooting on a Saturday.

From Time • Jan. 13, 2016

The 45-year-old earned a bronze medal in the skeet clay pigeon shooting at London 2012 and won the famous Dakar Rally for a second time earlier this year.

From BBC • Aug. 4, 2015

Later we see them all competing with each over who can arrive the most ostentatiously at a charity clay pigeon shoot and auction.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2010

He hit the bird, which at once flew into fragments, as a clay pigeon properly should.

From 'Doc.' Gordon by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)