WRESTLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrestling mean? 

• WRESTLING (noun)
  The noun WRESTLING has 2 senses:

1. the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat

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

  Familiarity information: WRESTLING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRESTLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

grapple; grappling; hand-to-hand struggle; wrestle; wrestling

Context example:

we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully

Hypernyms ("wrestling" is a kind of...):

struggle (strenuous effort)

Derivation:

wrestle (engage in a wrestling match)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

grappling; rassling; wrestling

Hypernyms ("wrestling" is a kind of...):

contact sport (a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players)

Meronyms (parts of "wrestling"):

wrestling hold (a hold used in the sport of wrestling)

Domain member category:

full nelson (a wrestling hold in which the holder puts both arms under the opponent's arms and exerts pressure on the back of the neck (illegal in amateur wrestling))

takedown ((amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wrestling"):

flying mare (a wrestling maneuver)

Greco-Roman wrestling (a style of wrestling where the wrestlers are forbidden to tackle or trip or use holds below the waist)

professional wrestling (wrestling for money)

sumo (a Japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground)

Derivation:

wrestle (engage in a wrestling match)

 Context examples 

In the prayer following the chapter, all his energy gathered—all his stern zeal woke: he was in deep earnest, wrestling with God, and resolved on a conquest.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Community-associated MRSA happens to people who have close skin-to-skin contact with others, such as athletes involved in football and wrestling.

(MRSA, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

He paused and put his hand to his throat, and I could see, in spite of his collected manner, that he was wrestling against the approaches of the hysteria—“I understood, a drawer...”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The back door was open, and as he came to the foot of the stairs he saw two men wrestling together outside.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Buck rushed at the splintering wood, sinking his teeth into it, surging and wrestling with it.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Whilst the council was sitting in Pampeluna the White Company, having encamped in a neighboring valley, close to the companies of La Nuit and of Black Ortingo, were amusing themselves with sword-play, wrestling, and shooting at the shields, which they had placed upon the hillside to serve them as butts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)