Throwing can have different meanings depending on the context.

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. Violence is a general term to describe actions, usually deliberate, that cause or intend to cause injury to people or animals. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ... Gravitation is the tendency of masses to move toward each other. ... A projectile is any object sent through the air by the application of some force. ... A bow is a weapon that shoots arrows powered by the elasticity of the bow and/or its string. ... This article is about firearms and similar devices. ... A spear is an ancient weapon, used for hunting and war. ... The word grenade can mean:- The well-known hand grenade commonly used by soldiers. ... Sedimentary, volcanic, plutonic, metamorphic rock types of North America. ... A ball is a round object that is used most often in sports and games. ... Binomial name Solanum lycopersicum L. The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, native to South and Central America. ...

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. Judo (Japanese: 柔道 Jūdō) is a martial art, a sport and a philosophy which originated in Japan. ... Ushiro Ukemi per Shinken Shobu Ukemi, or receiving the throw/attack, is the art of knowing how to land or fall and recover correctly from a martial arts technique with minimal impact. ...

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". The word ceramic is derived from Greek, and in its strictest sense refers to clay in all its forms. ... A man shapes pottery as it turns on a wheel. ... The potters wheel is a horizontal wheel or turntable used in the making of many types of pottery. ...

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#. Computer programming (often simply programming) is the craft of implementing one or more interrelated abstract algorithms using a particular programming language to produce a concrete computer program. ... Exception handling is a programming language construct or computer hardware mechanism designed to handle runtime errors or other problems (exceptions) which occur during the execution of a computer program. ... C++ (pronounced see plus plus) is a general-purpose computer programming language. ... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed initially by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...