mixed martial arts

English

Etymology

From mixed + martial arts.

Noun

mixed martial arts pl (plural only)

1. (sports, martial arts) A style of combat sport allowing a wide range of combat techniques such as striking and grappling.

   Hypernym: martial arts

   Alternative form: MMA

   • 2002 April 19, Scott Tobias, “Fightville”, in AV Club:

     Though mixed martial arts has successfully peeled away fans from boxing (a sport that’s lost any compelling champions and much of its dignity) and WWE (a “sport” that’s always existed in quotation marks) it’s had trouble shaking its reputation as “human cockfighting.”

   • 2003 November, “Century Completes 100th Martial Arts Video”, in Black Belt, page 111:

     Other top talent in the Central Vision library includes Black Belt Hall of Fame members Ernie Reyes Sr., Frank Shamrock, Bill “Superfoot” Wallace, mixed-martial arts champion Pat Miletich, breaking champion Larry Fields and Olympic judo medalist Mike Swain.

   • 2005, Jeremy Wall, UFC′s Ultimate Warriors: The Top Ten, page 202:

     Jiu jitsu competitions are vastly different from mixed martial arts, as they are grappling-only, and if an athlete does well in jiu jitsu, it doesn't guarantee that he'll also do well in mixed martial arts (and vice versa).

   • 2008, Mickey Dimic, Christopher Miller, Mixed Martial Arts Unleashed: Mastering the Most Effective Moves for Victory, page 20:

     Mixed martial arts is essentially about making the opponent tire out before you do so you are at an advantage in dealing devastating moves.

Derived terms

• mixed martial artist

Translations

style of combat sport

• Afrikaans: gemengde vegkuns
• Arabic: فُنُونٌ القِتَالِ الْمُخْتَلِطَة pl (funūnun al-qitāli l-muḵtaliṭa)
• Armenian: ընդհանուր մենամարտեր (əndhanur menamarter)
• Bengali: মিশ্র মার্শাল আর্টস (misro marśal arṭoś)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 綜合格鬥／综合格斗 (zōnghé gédòu), 混合武術／混合武术 (hùnhé wǔshù), 無限制格鬥／无限制格斗 (wúxiànzhì gédòu)

• Dutch: mixed martial arts
• French: combat libre (fr) m
• Galician: artes marciais mistas f pl
• Georgian: შერეული საბრძოლო ხელოვნება (šereuli sabrʒolo xelovneba)
• German: Mixed Martial Arts f pl, gemischte Kampfkünste pl or f
• Italian: arti marziali miste f pl
• Japanese: 総合格闘技 (ja) (そうごうかくとうぎ, sōgō kakutōgi)
• Kazakh: аралас жекпе-жек (aralas jekpe-jek)
• Korean: 종합격투기(綜合格鬥技) (jonghapgyeoktugi), 이종격투기(異種格鬪技) (ijonggyeoktugi)
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: холимог тулааны урлаг (xolimog tulaany urlag)
• Norwegian: mixed martial arts pl
• Portuguese: artes marciais mistas (pt), vale-tudo (pt) m
• Russian: смешанные боевые искусства n pl (smešannyje bojevyje iskusstva)
• Sinhalese: මිශ්‍ර සටන් ශිල්ප (miśra saṭan śilpa)
• Spanish: artes marciales mixtas f pl
• Swedish: mixed martial arts (sv) pl
• Thai: ศิลปะการต่อสู้แบบผสม
• Turkish: karma dövüş sanatı, karma dövüş sanatları pl
• Vietnamese: võ thuật tổng hợp