wrestling
nounEtymology
From late Old English wræstlung.
- inherited from wræstlung
Definitions
A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using…
A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”).
A wrestling match.
- […] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry […]
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The act of one who wrestles
The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.
- 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[…]
present participle and gerund of wrestle
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at wrestling. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at wrestling. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at wrestling
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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