sparring mate

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   a boxer who spars with another boxer who is training for an important fight

   Synonymssparring partner

   Broaderboxer

Questions about sparring mate

What does sparring mate mean?

sparring mate means "a boxer who spars with another boxer who is training for an important fight".

What is another word for sparring mate?

Close synonyms include sparring partner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sparring mate a common word?

sparring mate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.