Shot

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Shot may refer to:

Places

• Showt or Shoţ, a city in Iran

Arts, entertainment, and media

Organizations

• Serious Hazards of Transfusion, or SHOT, an organisation monitoring blood transfusion errors in the UK
• Society for the History of Technology, or SHOT, a professional organization for historians of technology

Sports

• Shot (ice hockey), an attempt to score a goal or points
• Home run, or shot in baseball slang
• Shot put, an event in track and field athletics
• SHOT Show (Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show), an annual trade show for the shooting, hunting, and firearms industry

Weaponry and ballistics

• Shot (pellet), small balls of metal generally used as shotgun projectiles, or as weights
• Armor-piercing shot and shell, an artillery shell
• Buckshot, a type of shotgun projectiles
• Gunshot, discharge of a firearm
• Round shot, a spherical solid metal projectile

Other uses

• Shot (medicine), an injection
• Shot, a fifteen fathom line length of anchor chain
• Shot, (or shott), a group of adjacent strips or furlongs in the medieval open field system
• Shot glass, a small glass used for serving or measuring liquor
• Shot silk, a type of silk

See also

• Moonshot (disambiguation), a rocket launch to the moon
• Shoot (disambiguation)
• Shooter (disambiguation)
  • Shooter (drink), a mixed alcoholic drink served in a shot glass
• Shooting (association football), a kicking technique in association football
• Shooting, the act of firing a projectile weapon or device
• Shots (disambiguation)