Throwing
Categories: Cleanup from June 2005 | Disambiguation
Throwing can have different meanings depending on the context.
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In violence/fighting, sports and martial arts
Compared with dropping, where a person releases something that just falls down because of gravity, a thrown object (projectile) is released with a certain velocity in a certain direction. If it is shot with a bow or gun it is not called throwing. Examples of projectiles are a spear, grenade, rock, ball, tomato.
In martial arts, throws are also attacks and maneuvers wherein the opponent is off-balanced, usually by being swept off their feet or lifted into the air, then driven to the ground. For example, judo has a large number of throwing techniques. The art of falling after being thrown is known as ukemi.
In ceramics
In the creation of ceramic ware, the actions in forming pottery from clay using a potter's wheel is called throwing, as in "throwing a pot".
In computer programming
Throwing is a term for raising an exception in exception handling, typically used with the try/throw/catch construct, in several programming languages, including C++, Java and C#.
In knitting
Throwing is a certain style of knitting (also known as English knitting).
pl:Rzut (sztuki walki)