What does "wrestling" mean?

A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.

What is a synonym for "wrestling"?

Common synonyms include: bingo, checkers, chess, game, grapple, grappling.

Pronounced //ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ//.

//ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level

Noun

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A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points. countable, uncountable
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the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down wordnet
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Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”). abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
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the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat wordnet
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A wrestling match. countable, dated
"[…] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry […]"

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The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something. countable
"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[…]"