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/ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ/ · noun
A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points..
[…] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry […]
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[…]
Use wrestling when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wrestling means A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points..
Common synonyms include grapple, wrestle, grappling, rassling.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry […]
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