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(US, sports) Being a style of amateur wrestling practised at collegiate and university level in the United States; the ultimate goal is to pin the opponent to the mat, and the legs can be used in offense and defense..
But there are differences in the scoring and technique between the folkstyle wrestling in college, and the freestyle at the Olympics and the world championships.
Use folkstyle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Folkstyle means (US, sports) Being a style of amateur wrestling practised at collegiate and university level in the United States; the ultimate goal is to pin the opponent to the mat, and the legs can be used in offense and defense..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But there are differences in the scoring and technique between the folkstyle wrestling in college, and the freestyle at the Olympics and the world championships.
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