fencing

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnsɪŋ

Verb

fencing

1. Present participle of fence.

Noun

fencing (plural fencings)

1. The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th to 18th century European dueling swords and the practice weapons decended from them (sport fencing)
2. Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.

   Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.

Translations

sport

• Armenian: սուսերամարտ (hy) (suseramart)
• Bulgarian: фехтовка (bg) (fehtóvka) f
• Catalan: esgrima (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擊劍 (cmn), 击剑 (cmn) (jījìan, jíjiàn)

• Czech: šerm (cs) m
• Danish: fægtning (da) c
• Dutch: schermen (nl)
• Esperanto: skermo (eo)
• Finnish: miekkailu (fi)
• French: escrime (fr) f
• German: Fechten (de) n

• Greek: ξιφασκία (el) (ksifaskía) f
• Greenlandic: panaanneq (kl)
• Hebrew: סייף (he)
• Hungarian: vívás (hu)
• Italian: scherma (it) f
• Japanese: フェンシング (ja) (fenshingu), 剣術 (ja) (けんじゅつ, kenjutsu)
• Korean: 펜싱 (ko) (pensing)
• Macedonian: мечувалство (mk) (mečuválstvo) n
• Manx: cliwederaght (gv) f
• Polish: szermierka (pl)
• Portuguese: esgrima (pt) f
• Russian: фехтование (ru) (fextovánije) n
• Spanish: esgrima (es) f
• Swedish: fäktning (sv)

material used to make fences

• Macedonian: тараба (mk) (táraba) f, тараби (mk) (tárabi) pl

• Portuguese: cerca (pt) f

fences used as barriers or an enclosure

• Bulgarian: заграждение (bg) (zagraždenie) n
• Dutch: hekwerk (nl) n

• Macedonian: ограда (mk) (ógrada) f
• Swedish: inhägnad (sv)

See also

• Fencing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia