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Skeet shooting Skeet shooting is a recreational and competitive activity where participants use shotguns to attempt to break clay targets which two fixed stations mechanically fling into the air at high speed and at a variety of angles. Skeet is one of the t ...
, a discipline of competitive clay pigeon shooting **
ISSF Olympic skeet Olympic Skeet is a variant of skeet shooting, and the specific variant used in the Olympic Games. The discipline is sanctioned by the International Shooting Sport Federation. Two throwing machines at different heights launch a series of 25 targets ...
, a variant used at the Olympic Games


People

* Skeet Childress (born 1979), American guitar player in the band
Look What I Did Look What I Did is an American band, formed in 2001 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The band is known for its intense live show, described by Cincinnati CityBeat as a "live act capable of unleashing a scary, uncontrolled intensity bord ...
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Skeet Quinlan Volney Ralph "Skeets" Quinlan, Jr (June 22, 1928January 18, 1998) was an American football halfback in the National Football League. He played five seasons for the Los Angeles Rams (1952–1956) and the Cleveland Browns The Cleveland Bro ...
(Volney Ralph Quinlan, 1928–1998), American football player *
Skeet Reese Skeet Reese is a professional sport fisherman of the B.A.S.S. (Bass Anglers Sportsmans Society) and Major League Fishing. He was born in Walnut Creek, California on June 30, 1969. He has a wife, Kim, and a two daughters, Leamarie and Courtney. Re ...
(born 1969), American professional sport fisherman *
Skeet Ulrich Skeet Ulrich (; born Bryan Ray Trout on January 20, 1970) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in popular 1990s films, including Billy Loomis in ''Scream'' (1996), Chris Hooker in '' The Craft'' (1996) and Vincent Lopiano in ''A ...
(Bryan Ray Trout, born 1970), American actor *
Andrew Skeet Andrew John Skeet (born 1969 in Croydon) is an English musician, composer and music producer. He has written scores for television and film and worked with many well-known composers and artists as an arranger, orchestrator and conductor. Biog ...
(born 1969), British musician, composer and music producer *
Brian Skeet Brian Skeet is an English director, writer, producer, and cinematographer. His work includes Documentaries, Films and Short films, a lot of it touching on romance and the HIV/AIDS crisis. Biography Skeet was born on November 21st, 1965 in Lo ...
(born 1965), English director, writer, producer and cinematographer *
Challen Skeet Challen Hasler Lufkin Skeet (17 August 1895 – 20 April 1978) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex and Oxford University between 1919 and 1922. Skeet was born in Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand. His family moved to England ...
(1895–1978), English cricketer *
Trevor Skeet Sir Trevor Herbert Harry Skeet (28 January 1918 – 14 August 2004) was a New Zealand-born lawyer and a British Conservative Party politician. Early life Skeet was born in Auckland, New Zealand and was educated at King's College, Auckland and th ...
(1918–2004), New Zealand lawyer and British Conservative politician *
William Skeet William Skeet (28 July 1906 – 9 July 1989) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played one first-class match for Auckland in 1938/39. See also * List of Auckland representative cricketers This is a list of all cricketers who have played ...
(1906–1989), New Zealand cricketer


Other uses

* Skeet, slang name for a post and verb for making a post on Bluesky (social network) *
Skeet River The Skeet River is a river of the Tasman Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows northeast from the Wharepapa / Arthur Range, reaching the Baton River 15 kilometres northwest of Tapawera. See also *List of rivers of New Zealand This ...
, in New Zealand's South Island * Skeet, a warhead of the
BLU-108 The BLU-108 is an air-delivered submunition, containing four further smart "Skeet" warheads. The system is manufactured by Textron Systems Weapon & Sensor Systems since 1992. The BLU-108 is released from a munitions dispenser, with a parachute be ...
submunition *
Curtiss KD2C Skeet The Curtiss-Wright KD2C Skeet was an American target drone produced by Curtiss-Wright for the United States Navy that began development in 1945. The KD2C-1 first flew in 1947, however it was found unsatisfactory and the program was cancelled in ...
, a 1945 American military target drone *
Skeet (Newfoundland) The noun skeet in Newfoundland and Labrador English is considered to be a pejorative epithet. Though it has never been formally defined in the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, it is used as a stereotype to describe someone who is ignorant, aggre ...
a pejorative term in Newfoundland * Skeet, a
non-standard poker hand Non-standard poker hands are hands which are not recognized by official poker rules but are made by house rules. Non-standard hands usually appear in games using wild cards or bugs. Other terms for nonstandard hands are special hands or freak hand ...


See also

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Skeets (disambiguation) Skeets may refer to: People * Skeets Gallacher (1925–2013), British boxer * Richard "Skeets" Gallagher (1891–1955), American actor * Skeets Herfurt (1911–1992), American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist * Skeets Martin (1875–1944), Amer ...
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Skeeter (disambiguation) Skeeter may refer to: * North American slang for mosquito, an insect Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Skeeter (Marvel comics), a nickname for Titania * Skeeter (Muppet), in ''Muppet Babies'' * Skeeter (South Park), in ''South Pa ...
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