Olympic Archery Archery has been a sport for a long time from pre-historic times, through medieval times, and today for the Olympics.
Archery is the sport of shooting an arrow at a certain target.
The most popular type of archery is called target archery. The object of the sport is to use a bow and arrow to hit a target. The target has ten scoring rings of five colored circles. If you hit the target right in the center, it's called a bull's eye. When an archer hits the bull's eye, he or she scores 10 points.