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Throwing

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In sports and martial arts

Compared with Dropping, where a person releases something that just falls down because of gravity, a thrown object is released with a certain velocity in a certain direction.

In ceramics

In the creation of ceramic ware, the actions in forming clay using a wheel is called throwing, as in "throwing a pot".