wrestling
/ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ/ noun B2- A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
- A wrestling match.
- The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.
Plural wrestlings
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Later on she made her bed less successfully, for she had never learned the art of wrestling with a feather tick.
The back door was open, and as he came to the foot of the stairs he saw two men wrestling together outside.
I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me.
She had spent decades wrestling with such linguistic puzzles, her career defined by the quiet triumph of finding the perfect analogous idiom.
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