sniping

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of snipe

plural snipings

1. A shooting from a concealed place.

   Although the army later returned control to civilian authorities, deaths from election clashes and terrorist bombings and snipings continued to occur, and became more frequent in the late 1970s.

   2009, G. Bingham Powell, Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability, and Violence