Wrestling

Definitions

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. Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
3. A wrestling match.
   countable, dated
4. The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply⟳ the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry […]”

“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⟳[…]”

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