Definitions for wrestling

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wrestling wres·tling

Spelling: [res-ling]

IPA: /ˈrɛs lɪŋ/

Wrestling is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 521 anagrams from letters in wrestling (egilnrstw).

Definitions for wrestling

noun

1. a sport in which two opponents struggle hand to hand in order to pin or press each other's shoulders to the mat or ground, with the style, rules, and regulations differing widely in amateur and professional matches. Compare catch-as-catch-can (def 3), Greco-Roman (def 3).
2. the act of a person who wrestles.
3. an act of or a bout at wrestling.
4. a struggle.

verb (used without object)

1. to engage in wrestling.
2. to contend, as in a struggle for mastery; grapple:

verb (used with object)

1. to contend with in wrestling.
2. to force by or as if by wrestling.
3. to throw (a calf or other animal) for branding.

Origin of wrestling

before 1100; Middle English; Old English wrǣstlunge. See wrestle, -ing¹

Examples for wrestling

Then, in 1985, du Pont turned his attention (and Forbes-estimated $200 million fortune) to wrestling.

Round behind Teutoberg he pivoted—a wrestling trick he had learned as a boy.

The wrestling over the attacks continued, and turned to the chemical composition of the sarin.

He poured millions into building Foxcatcher Farm, a wrestling facility boasting top-of-the-line weight machines.

And there must be umpires, as there are now in wrestling, to determine what is a fair hit and who is conqueror.

Colonel Mayhew took us to the fair, and to see the wrestling; then to the bazaars.

His passion was wrestling with a ghastly doubt, but it was of the kind that dies hard.

The wrestling fans are “incredibly horrifying when you age,” Madusa, now 50, wrote.

In the center of a group of spectators two men, stripped to the waist, were wrestling.

Between 1989 and 1995, du Pont donated $400,000 a year to USA wrestling.