wrestling

1. 1.

   the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat

   “they had a fierce wrestle”

   “we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully”

   Synonymswrestlegrapplegrapplinghand-to-hand struggle

   Broaderstruggle
2. 2.

   the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down

   Synonymsrasslinggrappling

   Broadercontact sport

   Narrowerflying mareGreco-Roman wrestlingprofessional wrestlingsumo

   Partswrestling hold

Other forms of wrestling

plural

wrestlings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wrestling

What does wrestling mean?

wrestling means "the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wrestling?

wrestling has 2 syllables: wrest-ling. The stress falls on "wrest". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛslɪŋ/.

What is another word for wrestling?

Close synonyms include wrestle, grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, rassling. 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 wrestling a common word?

wrestling is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.