fencing

English

Pronunciation

• 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 decended 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.

Derived terms

• geofencing

Translations

sport

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

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

• Czech: šerm m
• Danish: fægtning (da) c
• Dutch: schermen (nl)
• Esperanto: skermo
• Finnish: miekkailu (fi)
• French: escrime (fr) f
• German: Fechten (de) n
• Greek: ξιφασκία (el) f (xifaskía)
• Greenlandic: panaanneq
• Hebrew: סייף‏‎

• Hungarian: vívás (hu)
• Ido: skermo (io)
• Indonesian: anggar (id)
• Italian: scherma (it) f
• Japanese: フェンシング (ja) (fenshingu), 剣術 (ja) (けんじゅつ, kenjutsu)
• Korean: 펜싱 (pensing), 검술 (geomsul)
• Macedonian: мечува́лство n (mečuválstvo)
• Manx: cliwederaght f
• Polish: szermierka (pl)
• Portuguese: esgrima (pt) f
• Romanian: scrimă (ro) f
• Russian: фехтова́ние (ru) n (fextovánije)
• Spanish: esgrima (es) f
• Swedish: fäktning (sv)
• Tagalog: eskrima, kanluraning eskrima

material used to make fences

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

• Portuguese: cerca (pt) f
• Spanish: cerca (es)

fences used as barriers or an enclosure

• Bulgarian: загражде́ние n (zagraždénie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圍欄 (zh), 围栏 (zh) (wéilán)

• Dutch: hekwerk (nl) n
• Finnish: aitaus
• German: Einzäunung f

• 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)

See also

• fencing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia