fencing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛnsɪŋ/

• Audio (RP):

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• Rhymes: -ɛnsɪŋ

Verb

fencing

1. present participle of fence

Noun

fencing (countable and uncountable, 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 descended from them (sport fencing)
   • 1973, Alan Dundes, Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel, page 253:

     The pair both want to touch each other, and indulge in a series of fencings and parryings in the hope of attaining their desire.

2. Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.

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

3. receiving and buying of stolen goods

Derived terms

• geofencing

Translations

sport

• Arabic: مُبَارَزَة f (mubāraza)
• Armenian: սուսերամարտ (hy) (suseramart)
• Bulgarian: фехто́вка f (fehtóvka)
• Catalan: esgrima (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擊劍／击剑 (zh) (jījiàn), 击剑 (zh) (jījiàn, jíjiàn)

• Czech: šerm m
• Danish: fægtning (da) c
• Dutch: schermen (nl)
• Esperanto: skermo
• Estonian: vehklemine
• Finnish: miekkailu (fi)
• French: escrime (fr) f
• German: Fechten (de) n
• Greek: ξιφασκία (el) f (xifaskía)
• Greenlandic: panaanneq
• Hebrew: סַיִף (he) m (sayf)
• Hungarian: vívás (hu)
• Ido: skermo (io)
• Indonesian: anggar (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: scherma (it) f
• Japanese: フェンシング (ja) (fenshingu), 剣術 (ja) (けんじゅつ, kenjutsu)
• Kazakh: қылышпаздық (qylyşpazdyq), семсершілік (semserşılık)
• Korean: 펜싱 (pensing), 검술 (geomsul)
• Latvian: paukošana f
• Macedonian: мечува́лство n (mečuválstvo)
• Manx: cliwederaght f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fekting m or f

  Nynorsk: fekting f

• Polish: szermierka (pl)
• Portuguese: esgrima (pt) f
• Romanian: scrimă (ro) f
• Russian: фехтова́ние (ru) n (fextovánije)
• Rusyn: шаблёва́ня f (šabljovánja)
• Serbo-Croatian: mačevanje (sh) n
• Slovak: šerm (sk) m
• Slovene: sabljanje (sl) n
• Spanish: esgrima (es) f
• Swedish: fäktning (sv)
• Tagalog: eskrima, kanluraning eskrima
• Turkish: eskrim (tr)
• Ukrainian: фехтува́ння f (fextuvánnja)

material used to make fences

• Finnish: aitatarpeet pl
• German: Zaunfeld n, Absperrgitter (de) n (metal)
• Macedonian: тараба f (taraba), тараби pl (tarabi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: cerca (pt) f
• Spanish: cerca (es)

fences used as barriers or an enclosure

• Bulgarian: загражде́ние n (zagraždénie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圍欄／围栏 (zh) (wéilán), 围栏 (zh) (wéilán)

• Dutch: hekwerk (nl) n
• Finnish: aitaus (fi)
• German: Einzäunung f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: о́града f (ógrada)
• Portuguese: cerca (pt) f
• Russian: огражде́ние (ru) n (ograždénije), загражде́ние (ru) n (zagraždénije), огра́да (ru) f (ográda), забо́р (ru) m (zabór)
• Spanish: vallado (es) m, cerca (es) f
• Swedish: inhägnad (sv)
• Turkish: çit (tr), parmaklık (tr)

receiving and/or buying of stolen goods

• Dutch: heling (nl) f
• French: recel (fr) m
• German: Hehlerei (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ricettazione (it) f
• Portuguese: recetação f, (Brazil) receptação (pt) f
• Spanish: receptación f

See also

• fencing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia