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shooting sports

sports involving firearms used to hit targets
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Summary

shooting sports is a type of sport[1]. It draws 3,505 Wikipedia views per month (type of sport category, ranking #109 of 435).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: sport[3], shooting[4], Olympic sport[5]
  • Commons category: Shooting sports[6]
  • Authority: International Shooting Sport Federation[7]
  • Official website: https://www.issf-sports.org/[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Shooting sports[9]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: sport=shooting[10]
  • Different from: archery[11], sport crossbow shooting[12], shooting[13]
  • Uses: sporting weapon[14]
  • Practiced by: sport shooter[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16]

Why It Matters

shooting sports has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q4953
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → targets-shooting
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: targets-shooting, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289961438|targets shooting (#289961438)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harpe"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004014-sportovni-strelba
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004014-sportovni-strelba, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
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