wrestling

See also: Wrestling

English

Etymology

From late Old English wræstlung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ/, /ˈɹɛs.lɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛslɪŋ

Noun

wrestling (countable and uncountable, plural wrestlings)

2. A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.

   Hypernym: sport

3. Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”).
4. (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 […]

5. (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 […]

Verb

wrestling

1. present participle and gerund of wrestle

Derived terms

• all-in wrestling
• arm wrestling
• arm-wrestling
• Cornish wrestling
• Devon wrestling
• e-wrestling
• fantasy wrestling
• finger wrestling
• freestyle wrestling
• Graeco-Roman wrestling
• Greco-Roman wrestling
• Lancashire wrestling
• mud wrestling
• pro wrestling
• rasslin'
• shoot wrestling
• tag wrestling
• wrestling ring

Translations

sport — see also freestyle wrestling

• Arabic: مُصَارَعَة m (muṣāraʕa)
• Armenian: ըմբշամարտ (hy) (əmbšamart)
• Azerbaijani: güləş (az)
• Bashkir: көрәш (körəş)
• Bulgarian: борба (bg) f (borba)
• Buryat: барилдаан (barildaan)
• Catalan: lluita (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摔角 (zh) (shuāijiǎo), 摔跤 (zh) (shuāijiāo)

• Crimean Tatar: küreş
• Czech: zápas (cs) m
• Danish: brydning c
• Dutch: worstelen (nl) n
• Finnish: paini (fi)
• French: lutte (fr) f
• Gagauz: güreş
• Galician: loita (gl) f
• German: Ringkampf (de) m, Ringen (de) n
• Greek: πάλη (el) f (páli)

  Ancient: πάλη f (pálē)

• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: היאבקות (he) f (hiávkut)
• Hungarian: birkózás (hu)
• Irish: iomrascáil f, coraíocht f
• Italian: lotta (it) f
• Japanese: レスリング (ja) (resuringu)
• Kalmyk: ноолдлһн (nooldlğn), бәрлдән (bärldän)
• Kazakh: күрес (küres)
• Khakas: кӱрес (küres)
• Korean: 레슬링 (ko) (reseulling)
• Kurdish:

  Southern Kurdish: زووران (zûran)

• Kyrgyz: күрөш (ky) (küröş)
• Latin: luctātiō f
• Malay: gusti
• Malayalam: മൽപ്പിടുത്തം (malppiṭuttaṁ), ഗുസ്തി (ml) (gusti)
• Maltese: lotta f, sarar m, sirigħ m
• Mongolian: бөх (mn) (böx)
• Navajo: naʼahínítaah
• Nogai: куьрес (küres)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bryting m or f

  Nynorsk: bryting f

• Occitan: lucha (oc)
• Ojibwe: gagwejiwaaniding
• Ottoman Turkish: كورش (güreş)
• Persian: کشتی (fa) (košti)
• Polish: zapasy (pl) pl, wrestling (pl) m
• Portuguese: luta (pt) f
• Romanian: luptă (ro)
• Russian: борьба́ (ru) f (borʹbá)
• Scots: warstlin
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хр̀ва̄ње n

  Roman: hr̀vānje (sh) n

• Shor: кӱреш (küreş)
• Slovene: rokoborba (sl) f
• Southern Altai: кӱреш (küreš)
• Spanish: lucha (es) f
• Swahili: mieleka (sw)
• Swedish: brottning (sv) c
• Tagalog: buno, pagbubuno
• Tajik: гӯштингирӣ (güštingiri)
• Tatar: көрәш (tt) (köräş)
• Thai: มวยปล้ำ (th) (muai-bplâm)
• Tibetan: ཨབ་ཐང (ab thang), སྦེ་ག (sbe ga)
• Turkish: güreş (tr)
• Turkmen: göreş
• Tuvan: хүреш (xüreş), демисел (demisel)
• Ukrainian: боротьба́ (uk) f (borotʹbá)
• Urdu: کشتی (kušti), کشتی بازی (kušti bāzī)
• Uyghur: چېلىش (chëlish)
• Uzbek: kurash (uz)
• Vietnamese: vật (vi), đấu vật
• Yakut: тустуу (tustuu), күрэс (küres)
• Yoruba: gídígbò
• Zazaki: têmane

tumbling act

• Finnish: showpaini
• French: catch (fr) m
• Hungarian: pankráció (hu)
• Spanish: lucha libre (es), pressing catch

See also

• clench
• counter
• hold
• kanjin-sumo
• on the canvas
• on the mat
• on the ropes
• ring
• sumo

Further reading

• wrestling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wrestling, from Old English wræstlung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛst.liŋk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛstliŋk
• Syllabification: wrest‧ling

Noun

wrestling m inan

1. professional wrestling

Declension

Declension of wrestling

	singular
nominative	wrestling
genitive	wrestlingu
dative	wrestlingowi
accusative	wrestling
instrumental	wrestlingiem
locative	wrestlingu
vocative	wrestlingu

Further reading

• wrestling in Polish dictionaries at PWN