wrestling English

Meaning wrestling meaning

What does wrestling mean?

Definitions in simple English

wrestling Noun

— Wrestling is a sport where two or more people fight against each other. Many people like it to watch wrestling shows on TV.

wrestling

— noun the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down

— noun (= wrestle, grapple, grappling) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat they had a fierce wrestle we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully

Synonyms wrestling synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as wrestling?

wrestling English » English

wrestle

grappling

fight

struggle

rassling

grapple

tussle

quarrelling

hand-to-hand struggle

conflict

boxing

struggling

strife

shindy

scuffle

removing forcibly

personal struggle

melee

match

freestyle

fighting on foot

fighting

embrace

contending

combat

close fight

bout

battle

armful

Topics wrestling topics

What do people use wrestling to talk about?

Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports

• What words refer to specific sports?
  football soccer basketball tennis track track and field ping pong badminton baseball hockey ice hockey boxing wrestling running cricket golf gymnastics race

Examples wrestling examples

How do I use wrestling in a sentence?

Simple sentences

John is wrestling with Tom.

Have you ever watched sumo wrestling?

Tom bet Mary that he could beat her at arm wrestling.

Tom told Mary that he wasn't the captain of the wrestling team.

Tom loves professional wrestling.

Tom won the thumb-wrestling competition.

Your sister enjoys watching sumo wrestling on TV.

As I entered a tearoom, I found two young men watching a wrestling match on television.

Movie subtitles

You call that wrestling?

I'll show you some real wrestling.

Susan, when a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond. he's in no position to run.

Wrestling.

In wrestling you must think quick with the mind and act quick with the body.

My Russian wrestling friend, eh?

But when he was wrestling', the newspapers printed his mug a few times.

Go back to your wrestling match.

That was pretty fancy wrestling, kid.

I've been wrestling these guys for years, and they're pretty tricky.

I went to see my mother-in-law. She was wrestling semifinals.

Have you not studied our philosophy, military science, our judo wrestling?

I'm just wrestling the hardtack boxes.

I've been wrestling there.

Oh, no. That's wrestling.

It will only be a matter of a few moments until the jury ceases wrestling and hands Dr Maxford the verdict, and he will himself, in that well-known voice of his, read you the names of the winners.

Dances, prizefights, nightclubs, wrestling bouts.

You never take me to wrestling bouts.

Nora, if you ever get tired of wrestling, lend him to us, will you?

What will I wear for the wrestling?

You're gonna see some great wrestling tonight.

Enjoying the wrestling, dear?

I don't suppose you enjoyed those wrestling bouts very much last night.

Must be Mr. Stanley wrestling with my octopus.

You call that wrestling? I'll show you some real wrestling.

It seems to me you're fighting something bigger than the plague. wrestling with something you can't see, and Kyra, too.

Well, it's been nice wrestling with you.

Except steer wrestling.

News and current affairs

Yes, Europe is also wrestling with an aging population.

Regulators have been wrestling with this problem for years, without conspicuous success.

A lack of accountability inevitably produces corruption and inefficiency - problems with which China is now wrestling.

Yes, Europe is also wrestling with an aging population. Southern eurozone countries such as Italy and Spain have suffered from rising competition with China in textiles and light manufacturing industries.

The eurozone, currently wrestling with fiscal imbalance and sovereign debt risk, has a strong and autonomous central bank, but is fiscally fragmented and only partly unified politically.

OSAKA - Perhaps no other sport is pursued as religiously as sumo wrestling.