sparring partner

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

   Synonymssparring mate

   Broaderboxer

Questions about sparring partner

What does sparring partner mean?

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

What is another word for sparring partner?

Close synonyms include sparring mate. 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 partner a common word?

sparring partner 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.