wrestling

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English

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Etymology

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From late Old English wræstlunge.

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wrestling

  1. present participle and gerund of wrestle

Noun

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wrestling (countable and uncountable, plural wrestlings)

  1. A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
  2. Ellipsis of professional wrestling (act that emulates the sport of wrestling).
  3. (countable, dated) A wrestling match.
    • 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 4, page 42:
      [] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry []
  4. (countable) The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.
    • 1863, Jean Ingelow, “Honors”, in Poems:
      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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Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English wrestling, from Old English wræstlunge.

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wrestling m inan

  1. professional wrestling

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