hand-to-hand

English

Adjective

hand-to-hand (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Close together, within arm's reach. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. Especially, describing fighting (armed or unarmed) done within reach rather than at range.

   soldiers trained in hand-to-hand combat

   • 1985 June 9, William Kennedy, “The Last Ole”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 October 2020:

     Hemingway's subject for the epilogue was the mano a mano (or hand-to-hand, a duel) between Spain's two leading matadors, Luis Miguel Dominguin and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordonez.

Translations

fighting done within reach rather than at range — see also melée,‎ mêlée

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肉搏 (zh) (ròubó), 肉薄 (zh) (ròubó)

• Finnish: lähi- (fi)
• French: corps à corps (fr)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: αὐτοσχεδόν (autoskhedón) (adverb); (epic) ἀγχιμαχητής (ankhimakhētḗs), (epic) ἀγχέμαχος (ankhémakhos)

• Italian: corpo a corpo (it), all'arma bianca
• Macedonian: рако́пашен (rakópašen)
• Māori: taumātakitahi, tautakitahi, tautaumātakitahi
• Polish: wręcz (pl) (almost exclusively in collocations)
• Portuguese: corpo a corpo
• Spanish: cuerpo a cuerpo, a cuerpo
• Tagalog: mano-mano