wrestling

[res-ling]

noun

1. 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.

2. the act of a person who wrestles.

wrestling

/ ˈrɛslɪŋ /

noun

1. 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

before 1100; Middle English; Old English wrǣstlunge. See wrestle, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

As a younger man, Nathan ran a pawn shop, promoted professional wrestling and operated a photo and appliance store.

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He is wrestling with a growing secessionist movement in the oil-rich province of Alberta.

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Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s September meeting show a committee wrestling with conflicting economic signals and struggling to reach consensus on which is more important: stubborn inflation or a weakening labor market.

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What Peck found wasn’t a prophet or a symbol but a man full of contradictions: a writer wrestling with class, illness and empire, trying to fuse politics and art before his own time ran out.

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Professional wrestling violence is scripted, and wrestlers are supposed to stay in character in the presence of fans, a concept known as “kayfabe.”

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