the art or sport of shooting arrows with a bow 射箭术；射箭运动 
He took up archery eight years ago. 他八年前开始射箭。 Neither had practised archery before last year. 去年之前都没有练习射箭。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryArchery is used before these nouns:- range
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French archerie, from archier, based on Latin arcus ‘bow’.
