English
Noun
punching bag plural punching bags
A device, consisting of a tough cloth bag over sand or other material, used to practice punching , boxing or kicking .
( figurative ) abuse .
2019 April 14, Alex McLevy, “Winter is here on Game Of Thrones' final season premiere (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club [1] For so long, Theon Greyjoy was the punching bag of Game Of Thrones, a sort of shitty Charlie Brown who not only failed to kick the football, but would then be beaten savagely with it every time he landed on his ass.
Hyponyms
( device used to practice punching ) : speed bag
Coordinate terms
Translations
device used to practice punching
Basque: boxeo zakua
Belarusian: баксёрская груша f ( baksjórskaja hruša )
Bulgarian: боксов чувал ( boksov čuval )
Catalan: sac de boxa m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 拳擊沙袋 ／ 拳击沙袋 拳击沙袋 ( quánjī shādài ) , 吊袋 ( diàodài )
Czech: boxovací pytel
Danish: boksesæk n
Dutch: bokszak (nl) m
Finnish: nyrkkeilysäkki
French: sac de frappe m sac de boxe m
German: Sandsack (de) m Boxsack m
Greek: σάκος πυγμαχίας m ( sákos pygmachías )
Hebrew: שַׂק חֲבָטוֹת (he) m ( saq ḥavatót ) , שַׂק אִגְרוּף m ( saq igrúf )
Hungarian: boxzsák
Italian: punching ball m punching bag m
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Japanese: サンドバッグ ( sandobaggu )
Korean: 샌드백 ( sandeubaeg )
Latin: cōrycus m
Norwegian: boksesekk
Polish: worek bokserski m worek treningowy (pl) m
Portuguese: saco de pancada (pt) m saco de boxe m
Romanian: sac de box m
Russian: боксёрская гру́ша f ( boksjórskaja grúša ) , боксёрский мешо́к m ( boksjórskij mešók )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: врећа за ударање f боксерски врећа f боксерски џак
Roman: vreća za udaranje f bokserski vreća f bokserski džak
Slovak: boxovacie vrece f
Slovene: boks vreča f
Spanish: saco de boxeo m
Swedish: boxningssäck
Turkish: boks torbası
