kickboxing

See also: kick-boxing

English

Alternative forms

• kick-boxing

Etymology

A 1960s compound of kick +‎ boxing. Possibly coined as a (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese anglicism (和製英語), キックボクシング (kikkubokushingu) by Osamu Noguchi, to be reborrowed into (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English.

Noun

kickboxing (uncountable)

1. (martial arts) A hybrid martial art derived from Muay Thai, karate and boxing during the 1960s to 1970s; more generally, any stand-up combat sport that combines kicks and punches.

   The Japanese kickboxing gym, recently opened in the Thai capital, had been a great success (Black Belt Magazine, March 1973, p. 13)

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
• German: Kickboxing n, Kickboxen (de) n
• Greek: κικ μπόξινγκ n (kik bóxingk)
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• Indonesian: kickboxing
• Japanese: キックボクシング (ja) (kikkubokushingu)
• Korean: 킥복싱 (ko) (kikboksing)
• Malay: kickboxing
• Polish: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: kickboxing m, kickboxe m
• Russian: кикбо́ксинг (ru) m (kikbóksing)
• Swedish: kickboxning
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: quyền cước

See also

• Muay Thai

Further reading

• Kickboxing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Portuguese

Etymology

From English kickboxing.

Noun

kickboxing m (uncountable)

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

Synonyms

• kickboxe

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Spanish

Etymology

From English kickboxing.

Noun

kickboxing m (uncountable)

1. kickboxing