recurve
Example Sentences
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The archery ranking rounds with the compound and recurve bows are being held this morning Tokyo time as well, setting up how the competition will unfold on later days.
From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2021
Para-archery: In Paralympic archery, archers compete in three classes - W1, open compound and open recurve.
From BBC • Aug. 16, 2021
Ana Paula Vázquez, Mexico: Young archer who began her career using the compound bow, but who has since switched to the recurve bow.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 22, 2021
But when he turned 21, a friend gave him a Hungarian recurve horseback bow.
From New York Times • May 31, 2018
It should be remembered by the reader that the mere converging of two ridges does not form a recurve, without which there can be no loop.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
