wrestling

Etymology

From late Old English wræstlunge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ/, /ˈɹɛs.lɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛslɪŋ

Verb

wrestling

1. present participle and gerund of wrestle

Noun

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 […]

See also

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wrestling, from Old English wræstlunge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛst.liŋk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛstliŋk
• Syllabification: wrest‧ling

Noun

wrestling m inan

1. professional wrestling

Further reading

• wrestling in Polish dictionaries at PWN