wrestling

[ res-ling ]

/ ˈrɛs lɪŋ /

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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.

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Origin of wrestling

before 1100; Middle English; Old English wrǣstlunge.See wrestle, -ing¹

Words nearby wrestling

Wren, Christopher, Wrens, wren-tit, wrest, wrestle, wrestling, wrest pin, wretch, wretched, Wrexham, wrick

How to use wrestling in a sentence

Controlling it is “like wrestling,” one of its pilots told me last year.
This year’s Super Bowl flyover will be unlike any other|Rob Verger|February 5, 2021|Popular-Science
The firm called for Stimson to increase awareness of its philanthropic giving to Habitat for Humanity, a Tillamook County domestic violence shelter and local sports teams, including a planned donation of wrestling mats.
Timber Tax Cuts Cost Oregon Towns Billions. Then Polluted Water Drove Up the Price.|by Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Rob Davis, The Oregonian/OregonLive|January 1, 2021|ProPublica
I had never been to a wrestling match, or much else live entertainment for that matter, and had no idea what to expect.
Your Dad Ever Get His Ass Kicked by a Pro Wrestler?|Eugene Robinson|December 18, 2020|Ozy
The conversation was, at first, solely focused on the world of professional wrestling.
No game days. No bars. The pandemic is forcing some men to realize they need deeper friendships.|Samantha Schmidt|November 30, 2020|Washington Post

Yet the news of Smith’s involvement with Brockman has left many wrestling to understand what happened.
A dodgy deal helped make him a billionaire. It worked, until now.|Peter Whoriskey, Yeganeh Torbati, Keith L. Alexander|November 9, 2020|Washington Post
The wrestling fans are “incredibly horrifying when you age,” Madusa, now 50, wrote.
The Moms of Monster Jam Drive Trucks, Buck Macho Culture|Eliza Krigman|November 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then, in 1985, du Pont turned his attention (and Forbes-estimated $200 million fortune) to wrestling.
Foxcatcher’s Real-Life Psycho Killer|Marlow Stern|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He poured millions into building Foxcatcher Farm, a wrestling facility boasting top-of-the-line weight machines.
Foxcatcher’s Real-Life Psycho Killer|Marlow Stern|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Between 1989 and 1995, du Pont donated $400,000 a year to USA Wrestling.
Foxcatcher’s Real-Life Psycho Killer|Marlow Stern|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The wrestling over the attacks continued, and turned to the chemical composition of the sarin.
The Kardashian Look-Alike Trolling for Assad|Noah Shachtman, Michael Kennedy|October 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He called it "wrestling for her soul;" and I think his prayers were heard, for "God judgeth not as man judgeth."
Ruth|Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Corydon, nervous and sick and wrestling with melancholia, would have to lie awake for uncounted hours and submit to this torment.
Love's Pilgrimage|Upton Sinclair
Thence homewards by coach, through Moorefields, where we stood awhile, and saw the wrestling.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete|Samuel Pepys
He spent a whole day wrestling with the concoction, and gave himself a headache with the ghastly odor.
Love's Pilgrimage|Upton Sinclair
But he was a Job wrestling with difficulty, a Job combating and making head against afflictions; a Job conquering!
Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo

British Dictionary definitions for wrestling

wrestling

/ (ˈrɛslɪŋ) /

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 submitSee freestyle, Graeco-Roman, sumo

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