Wrestling
/ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points. countable, uncountable
- 2 the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down wordnet
- 3 Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”). abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
- 4 the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat wordnet
- 5 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 […]"
Show 1 more definition
- 6 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[…]"
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of wrestle form-of, gerund, participle, present
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"Your sister enjoys watching sumo wrestling on TV."
Etymology
From late Old English wræstlung.