Meanings
plural shooting ranges
- A facility designed for firearms practice.
He enjoys going to the shooting range, but these days the price of cartridges and the price of range time have dampened his enthusiasm for the hobby.
Synonyms: firing range, range, target range, gun range, gunnery range, shooting ground, shootery
- A distance that allows for shooting: one that is not so far as to make shooting infeasible, unlikely, or impossible.
within shooting range
1 more example
You'll need to be patient and wait for those deer to come within shooting range.
Synonyms: firing range
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA facility designed for firearms practice.
nounA distance that allows for shooting: one that is not so far as to make shooting infeasible, unlikely, or impossible.
More synonyms by meaning
nounan enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic مَيْدَان رِمَايَة, سَاحَة رِمَايَة
- مَيْدَان رِمَايَة (maydān rimāya)a facility designed for firearms practice
- سَاحَة رِمَايَة (sāḥat rimāya)a facility designed for firearms practice
Bulgarian стрелби́ще
- стрелби́ще (strelbíšte)a facility designed for firearms practice
Chinese Mandarin 射擊場 /射击场, 靶場 /靶场
- 射擊場 /射击场 (shèjīchǎng)a facility designed for firearms practice
- 靶場 /靶场 (bǎchǎng)a facility designed for firearms practice
Czech střelnice
- střelnicea facility designed for firearms practice
Danish skydebane
- skydebanea facility designed for firearms practice
Dutch schietbaan
- schietbaana facility designed for firearms practice
Estonian lasketiir, laskekaugus
- lasketiira facility designed for firearms practice
- laskekaugusa facility designed for firearms practice
Finnish ampumarata
- ampumarataa facility designed for firearms practice
French stand de tir, champ de tir
- stand de tira facility designed for firearms practice
- champ de tira facility designed for firearms practice
German Schießplatz, Schießstand
- Schießplatza facility designed for firearms practice
- Schießstanda facility designed for firearms practice
- Schießanlagea facility designed for firearms practice
Greek σκοπευτήριο, πεδίο βολής
- σκοπευτήριο (skopeftírio)a facility designed for firearms practice
- πεδίο βολής (pedío volís)a facility designed for firearms practice
Hebrew מִטְוָח \ מטווח
- מִטְוָח \ מטווח (mitvákh)a facility designed for firearms practice
Hungarian lőtér, lövölde
- lőtéra facility designed for firearms practice
- lövöldea facility designed for firearms practice
Italian poligono di tiro
- poligono di tiroa facility designed for firearms practice
Japanese 射撃場
- 射撃場 (shagekijō)a facility designed for firearms practice
Korean 사격장
- 사격장 (sagyeokjang)a facility designed for firearms practice
Latvian šautuve
- šautuvea facility designed for firearms practice
Lithuanian tiras, šaudykla
- tirasa facility designed for firearms practice
- šaudyklaa facility designed for firearms practice
Norwegian Bokmål skytebane
- skytebanea facility designed for firearms practice
Polish strzelnica
- strzelnicaa facility designed for firearms practice
Romanian poligon de tragere
- poligon de tragerea facility designed for firearms practice
Russian тир, стре́льбище
- тир (tir)a facility designed for firearms practice
- стре́льбище (strélʹbišče)a facility designed for firearms practice
Slovak strelnica
- strelnicaa facility designed for firearms practice
Spanish polígono de tiro, campo de tiro
- polígono de tiroa facility designed for firearms practice
- campo de tiroa facility designed for firearms practice
- galería de tiroa facility designed for firearms practice
Swedish skjutbana
- skjutbanaa facility designed for firearms practice
Turkish poligon, atış yeri
- poligona facility designed for firearms practice
- atış yeria facility designed for firearms practice
Ukrainian тир, стрі́льбище
- тир (tyr)a facility designed for firearms practice
- стрі́льбище (strílʹbyšče)a facility designed for firearms practice
Cite this entry
shooting range. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shooting%20range
“shooting range.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shooting%20range. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shooting range,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shooting%20range.
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