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present participle and gerund of wrestle examples
countable and uncountable, plural wrestlings
A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points. examples
Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”). examples
(countable, dated) A wrestling match. quotations examples
[…] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry […]
1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 4, page 42
(countable) The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something. quotations examples
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 […]
1863, Jean Ingelow, “Honors”, in Poems