hurling vs throwing

hurling

noun
  • The act by which something is hurled or thrown. 

  • An Irish game of ancient Celtic origin. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar. 

  • A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball. 

throwing

noun
  • The act by which something is thrown. 

  • The process of making ceramic ware on the potter's wheel 

How often have the words hurling and throwing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )