kickboxing

See also: Kickboxing, kick-boxing, and kick boxing

English

Alternative forms

• kick-boxing, kick boxing

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese キックボクシング (kikkubokushingu), from English kick +‎ boxing. Possibly coined by Japanese businessman Osamu Noguchi in 1964.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪk.bɒk.sɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

kickboxing (uncountable)

1. (martial arts) A hybrid martial art derived from Muay Thai, karate, and especially boxing during the 1960s to 1970s; more generally, any stand-up combat sport that combines kicks and punches.
   • 1940 August 4, Daily Telegraph, Sydney, page 2:

     Ex world’s champion [Georges] Carpentier was also expert at kick-boxing.

   • 1973 March, Black Belt magazine, page 13:

     The Japanese kickboxing gym, recently opened in the Thai capital, had been a great success

Related terms

• boxing
• kick
• kickboxer

Translations

sport

• Arabic: كِيك بُوكْس m (kik buks)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 踢拳 (tīquán)

• Dutch: kickboksen (nl) n
• Esperanto: piedbato-bokso
• Finnish: potkunyrkkeily (fi)
• French: kick-boxing (fr) m
• Georgian: კიკბოქსინგი (ḳiḳboksingi)
• German: Kickboxing n, Kickboxen (de) n
• Greek: κικ μπόξινγκ n (kik bóxingk)
• Indonesian: kickboxing
• Japanese: キックボクシング (ja) (kikkubokushingu)
• Korean: 킥복싱 (ko) (kikboksing)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kîkboksîng (ku) f

• Malay: kickboxing
• Polish: kick boxing (pl) m, kick-boxing (pl) m
• Portuguese: kickboxing m, kickboxe m
• Russian: кикбо́ксинг (ru) m (kikbóksing)
• Swedish: kickboxning c
• Thai: คิกบ็อกซิ่ง (khik b̆ xk sìng), มวยไทย (th) (mwythịy)
• Ukrainian: кікбо́ксинг m (kikbóksynh)
• Vietnamese: quyền cước (vi)

Verb

kickboxing

1. present participle and gerund of kickbox

See also

• Muay Thai

Further reading

• Kickboxing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• box kicking

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English kickboxing.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ki.kiˈbɔ.ki.sĩ/, /ki.kiˈbɔk.sĩ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kikˈbɔk.sĩɡ/ [kikˈβɔk.sĩɡ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kikˈbɔk.sĩɡ/ [kikˈβɔk.sĩɡ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kikˈbɔk.sĩɡ/

Noun

kickboxing m (uncountable)

1. (martial arts) kickboxing (sport like boxing but allowing strikes with the feet)

   Synonym: kickboxe

Further reading

• “kickboxing”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English kickboxing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiɡˈboɡsin/ [kiɣ̞ˈβ̞oɣ̞.sĩn]
• Rhymes: -oɡsin

Noun

kickboxing m (uncountable)

1. kickboxing

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Hypernyms

• deporte de combate