In botany, shoots consist of stems including their appendages, the leaves and lateral buds, flowering stems and flower buds. The new growth from seed germination that grows upward is a shoot where leaves will develop. In the spring, perennial plant shoots are the new growth that grows from the ground in herbaceous plants or the new stem and/or flower growth that grows on woody plants.

A shoot is an immature plant or portion of a plant. Shoot or its variants may also refer to:

• Shoot (film), a 1976 action thriller starring Cliff Robertson
• Aoki Densetsu Shoot!, sometimes called Blue Legend Shoot, Japanese manga in 1993–1994
• Photo shoot, event usually associated with the fashion industry, where a model poses for a photographer
• Shoot, a 1971 performance art piece by Chris Burden in which he was shot on stage
• Shoot!, a 2005 Singapore variety show on MediaCorp Channel U