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Vinony

wrestling

noun

  1. form of combat sport involving grappling type techniques
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ/ / /ˈɹɛs.lɪŋ/

noun

Etymology: From late Old English wræstlung.

  1. A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
  2. Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”).
  3. A wrestling match.

    “[…] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry […]”

  4. The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.

    “I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow[…]”

verb

Etymology: From late Old English wræstlung.

  1. present participle and gerund of wrestle