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wrestling
[ res-ling ]
noun
- a sport in which two opponents struggle hand to hand in order to pin or press each other's shoulders to the mat or ground, with the style, rules, and regulations differing widely in amateur and professional matches. Compare catch-as-catch-can ( def 3 ), Greco-Roman ( def 3 ).
- the act of a person who wrestles.
wrestling
/ ˈɛɪŋ /
noun
- any of certain sports in which the contestants fight each other according to various rules governing holds and usually forbidding blows with the closed fist. The principal object is to overcome the opponent either by throwing or pinning him to the ground or by causing him to submit See freestyle Graeco-Roman sumo
Word History and Origins
Origin of wrestling1
Example Sentences
It's central to WWE chief content officer Paul 'Triple H' Levesque's vision of making wrestling globally accessible and relevant to a new generation of streaming era fans.
Staged in a crumbling gothic opera house, the two-hour show depicted the star's inner angels and demons wrestling for her soul.
Both of these characters are wrestling with real instances of denials of freedoms, and I want this play to invite us to see the ways that these different systems have impacted both of them.
In India, Mallakhamb — which translates to “wrestler’s pole” — emerged around the 12th century as a sport combining yoga, wrestling and aerial acrobatics.
An Orange County high school wrestling coach has been arrested on suspicion of grooming young female athletes and coercing them into sex, authorities said.
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