What is another word for hurling?

Pronunciation: [hˈɜːlɪŋ] (IPA)

Hurling is a traditional Irish sport that involves striking a small ball with a curved wooden stick called a hurley. It is a fast-paced and highly physical game that requires skill, strength, and endurance. Some synonyms for the word hurling include throwing, pitching, heaving, tossing, and flinging. These words convey the force and velocity with which the ball is propelled through the air. Other synonyms include launching, firing, and catapulting, all of which suggest a sudden and powerful release of energy. Whatever word is used, hurling remains a unique and exciting sport that continues to captivate players and fans alike.

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Usage examples for Hurling

Suddenly we made a combined rush into the open, hurling stones, and keeping a long rock in a line for retreat.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
If we wished the musk oxen to retreat, we would make a combined rush, hurling the stones at the herd.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The thing was conscious-that was the awful thing about it, I could swear that he was seeing far beyond all of us, that he was hurling his happiness at something that he had there before him as clearly as I have you before me now.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole

Famous quotes with Hurling

  • For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I am in a place, in a situation, as if I had materialized from cloud or risen out of the ground. There is a glad recognition of the long lost and the rest follows. Step by step the wonder of unexpected supply keeps growing. The impressions most useful to my purpose seem always those I was unaware of and so made no note of at the time when taken, and the conclusion is come to that like giants we are always hurling experience ahead of us to pave the future with against the day when we may Want to strike a line of purpose across it for somewhere. The line will have the more charm for not being mechanically straight.
    Robert Frost
  • “I conceive the essential relationship between God and the world to be not one of power and violence, as might think the primitive man, who worships physical strength and imagines that it is a superior power shaking the earth with earthquakes or hurling a thunderbolt through space; it is nearness, something which might seem insignificant but which brings spiritual awareness.”
    Aldo Capitini
  • William Shirer writes in his works and that on the morning on September 22, 1938, prior to Hitler's meeting with Neville Chamberlain over the future of Czechoslovakia, "Hitler was in highly nervous state. On the morning of the twenty-second I was having breakfast on the terrace of the Hotel Dressen, where the talks were to take place, when Hitler strode past on his way down to the riverbank to inspect his yacht. He seemed to have a peculiar tic. Every few steps he cocked his right shoulder nervously, his left leg snapping up as he did so. He had ugly, black patches under his eyes. He seemed to be, as I noted in my diary that evening, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. muttered my German companion, an editor who secretly despised the Nazis. And he explained that Hitler had been in such a maniacal mood over the Czechs the last few days that on more than one occasion he had lost control of himself completely, hurling himself to the floor and chewing the edge of the carpet. Hence the term "carpet eater." The evening before, while talking with some of the party leaders at the Dreesen, I had heard the expression applied to the Fuehrer -- in whispers, of course."
    William L. Shirer

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