ALL meanings of wrestling
wres·tling
W w - noun wrestling The sport or activity of grappling with an opponent and trying to throw or hold them down on the ground, typically according to a code of rules. 1
- noun wrestling an act of or a bout at wrestling. 1
- noun wrestling a struggle. 1
- verb without object wrestling to engage in wrestling. 1
- verb without object wrestling to contend, as in a struggle for mastery; grapple: to wrestle with one's conscience. 1
- verb with object wrestling to contend with in wrestling. 1
- verb with object wrestling to force by or as if by wrestling. 1
- verb with object wrestling to throw (a calf or other animal) for branding. 1
- noun wrestling A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points. 0
- noun wrestling A professional tumbling act that emulates the sport of wrestling. Also called "professional wrestling". It is distinguished from sport wrestling -- which has strict internationally recognized rules and is conducted on a mat -- by being scripted, rehearsed, conducted in a boxing ring rather than on a mat, and programmed as entertainment. 0
- noun wrestling (Countable Noun) The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something. 0
- verb wrestling present participle of wrestle. 0
- uncountable noun wrestling Wrestling is a sport in which two people wrestle and try to throw each other to the ground. 0
- noun wrestling any of certain sports in which the contestants fight each other according to various rules governing holds and usually forbidding blows with the closed fist. The principal object is to overcome the opponent either by throwing or pinning him to the ground or by causing him to submit 0
- noun wrestling a form of sport in which the opponents struggle hand to hand, attempting to throw or force each other to the ground without striking blows 0