wrestling

noun
/ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ/

Etymology

From late Old English wræstlung.

  1. inherited from wræstlung

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”).

  3. 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 […]
  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. 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[…]
    2. 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.

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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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