Fencing

//ˈfɛnsɪŋ//

Synonyms for "fencing" (40 found)

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Noun(2 words)
fencefencing material

Related words (20)

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12 relation types

More general

8 entries

Synonyms

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derived

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form of

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has subevent

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is a

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receives action

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used for

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Translations

83 translations across 47 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • مُبَارَزَة noun (sport)

Armenian

1 entries
  • սուսերամարտ noun (sport)

Azerbaijani

2 entries
  • qılıncbazlıq noun (sport)
  • qılıncoynatma noun (sport)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • фехтава́нне noun (sport)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • загражде́ние noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)
  • фехто́вка noun (sport)

Carpathian Rusyn

1 entries
  • шаблёва́ня noun (sport)

Catalan

1 entries
  • esgrima noun (sport)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 圍欄 /围栏 noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)
  • 擊劍 /击剑 noun (sport)

Czech

1 entries
  • šerm noun (sport)

Danish

1 entries
  • fægtning noun (sport)

Dutch

3 entries
  • hekwerk noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)
  • heling noun (receiving or buying of stolen goods)
  • schermen noun (sport)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • skermo noun (sport)

Estonian

1 entries
  • vehklemine noun (sport)

Finnish

3 entries
  • aitatarpeet noun (material used to make fences)
  • aitaus noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)
  • miekkailu noun (sport)

French

2 entries
  • escrime noun (sport)
  • recel noun (receiving or buying of stolen goods)

Georgian

1 entries
  • ფარიკაობა noun (sport)

German

4 entries
  • Absperrgitter noun (material used to make fences)
  • Einzäunung noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)
  • Fechten noun (sport)
  • Hehlerei noun (receiving or buying of stolen goods)

Greek

1 entries
  • ξιφασκία noun (sport)

Greenlandic

1 entries
  • panaanneq noun (sport)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • סַיִף noun (sport)

Hindi

2 entries
  • बाड़ noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)
  • बाड़ा noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • vívás noun (sport)

Ido

1 entries
  • skermo noun (sport)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • anggar noun (sport)

Italian

2 entries
  • ricettazione noun (receiving or buying of stolen goods)
  • scherma noun (sport)

Japanese

2 entries
  • フェンシング noun (sport)
  • 剣術 noun (sport)

Kazakh

2 entries
  • семсершілік noun (sport)
  • қылышпаздық noun (sport)

Korean

2 entries
  • 검술 noun (sport)
  • 펜싱 noun (sport)

Latvian

1 entries
  • paukošana noun (sport)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • мечува́лство noun (sport)
  • о́града noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)
  • тараба noun (material used to make fences)
  • тараби noun (material used to make fences)

Manx

1 entries
  • cliwederaght noun (sport)

Middle English

1 entries
  • skirmerie noun (sport)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • fekting noun (sport)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • fekting noun (sport)

Persian

1 entries
  • شمشیربازی noun (sport)

Polish

1 entries
  • szermierka noun (sport)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • cerca noun (material used to make fences)
  • cerca noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)
  • esgrima noun (sport)
  • receptação noun (receiving or buying of stolen goods)

Romanian

1 entries
  • scrimă noun (sport)

Russian

4 entries
  • забо́р noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)
  • загражде́ние noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)
  • огра́да noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)
  • огражде́ние noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • mačevanje noun (sport)

Slovak

1 entries
  • šerm noun (sport)

Slovene

1 entries
  • sabljanje noun (sport)

Spanish

4 entries
  • cerca noun (material used to make fences)
  • cerca noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)
  • esgrima noun (sport)
  • receptación noun (receiving or buying of stolen goods)

Swedish

2 entries
  • fäktning noun (sport)
  • inhägnad noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)

Tagalog

2 entries
  • eskrima noun (sport)
  • kanluraning eskrima noun (sport)

Turkish

3 entries
  • eskrim noun (sport)
  • parmaklık noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)
  • çit noun (fences used as barriers or an enclosure)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • фехтува́ння noun (sport)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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Former Olympic fencing champion Pál Schmitt has been elected President of Hungary.

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A furious elephant kicks out the fencing of his enclosure and sends the keeper flying.

Source: tatoeba (580789)

He was arrested for fencing stolen goods.

Source: tatoeba (853242)

Let's practice foil fencing.

Source: tatoeba (2887821)

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