target range
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Definition
Noun: 1. A designated area for practicing marksmanship: A "target range" is a specifically designed and controlled area where individuals, typically military personnel, law enforcement officers, or sport shooters, practice shooting at stationary or moving targets to improve their accuracy and skill with firearms or other projectile weapons.
Usage
The term "target range" is used to describe a facility or outdoor area built for the primary purpose of safe weapons training and practice. * The new recruits spent the afternoon at the target range learning to fire their rifles. * For safety, all shooting must be confined to the designated target range. * The police department's target range is equipped with electronic scoring systems.
Advanced Usage
- "live-fire target range": Specifies a range where actual ammunition is used, as opposed to a simulation or laser training range.
- The exercise will be conducted on the live-fire target range.
- As a modifier: The term can be used adjectivally before another noun.
- target range safety (the safety protocols for a range)
- target range officer (the person supervising the range)
Variants and Related Words
- Firing range: A direct synonym, often used interchangeably with "target range."
- Shooting range: Another common synonym with the same core meaning.
- Practice range: A more general term that can include areas for practicing other skills (e.g., artillery, drone operations), but often implies a target range when context involves weapons.
Synonyms
- Firing range
- Shooting range
- Practice range (context-dependent)
Related Phrases
- On the range: A common phrase meaning actively using or present at the target range.
- The sergeant put the soldiers on the range for three hours.
- Range time: Refers to scheduled or allotted time for practice at a target range.
- I need to book some range time to sight in my new scope.
Noun
- a practice range for target practice