wrestling

See also: Wrestling

English

Etymology

From late Old English wræstlung.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ/, /ˈɹɛs.lɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛslɪŋ

Noun

wrestling (countable and uncountable, plural wrestlings)

A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
Hypernym: sport
Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”).
(countable, dated) A wrestling match.
- 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 4, page 42:
  […] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry […]
(countable) The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.
- 1863, Jean Ingelow, “Honors”, in Poems:
  I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow […]

Verb

wrestling

present participle and gerund of wrestle

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Japanese: レスリング

Translations

sport — see also freestyle wrestling

Albanian: mundje (sq)
Altai:
Southern Altai: кӱреш (küreš)
Arabic: مُصَارَعَة m (muṣāraʕa)
Armenian: ըմբշամարտ (hy) (əmbšamart)
Azerbaijani: güləş (az)
Bashkir: көрәш (körəş)
Bulgarian: борба (bg) f (borba)
Buryat: барилдаан (barildaan)
Catalan: lluita (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 摔角 (zh) (shuāijiǎo), 摔跤 (zh) (shuāijiāo)
Crimean Tatar: küreş
Czech: zápas (cs) m
Danish: brydning c
Dutch: worstelen (nl) n
Finnish: paini (fi)
French: lutte (fr) f
Gagauz: güreş
Galician: loita (gl) f
German: Ringkampf (de) m, Ringen (de) n
Greek: πάλη (el) f (páli)
Ancient Greek: πάλη f (pálē)
Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: היאבקות (he) f (hiávkut)
Hungarian: birkózás (hu)
Irish: iomrascáil f, coraíocht f
Italian: lotta (it) f
Japanese: レスリング (ja) (resuringu)
Kalmyk: ноолдлһн (nooldlğn), бәрлдән (bärldän)
Kazakh: күрес (küres)
Khakas: кӱрес (küres)
Korean: 레슬링 (ko) (reseulling)
Kurdish:
Southern Kurdish: زووران (zûran)
Kyrgyz: күрөш (ky) (küröş)
Latin: luctātiō f
Malay: gusti
Malayalam: മൽപ്പിടുത്തം (malppiṭuttaṁ), ഗുസ്തി (ml) (gusti)
Maltese: lotta f, sarar m, sirigħ m
Mongolian: бөх (mn) (böx)
Navajo: naʼahínítaah
Nogai: куьрес (küres)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bryting m or f

Nynorsk: bryting f
Occitan: lucha (oc)
Ojibwe: gagwejiwaaniding
Persian: کشتی (fa) (košti)
Polish: zapasy (pl) pl, wrestling (pl) m
Portuguese: luta (pt) f
Romanian: luptă (ro)
Russian: борьба́ (ru) f (borʹbá)
Scots: warstlin
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хр̀ва̄ње n

Latin: hr̀vānje (sh) n
Shor: кӱреш (küreş)
Slovene: rokoborba (sl) f
Spanish: lucha (es) f
Swahili: mieleka (sw)
Swedish: brottning (sv) c
Tagalog: buno, pagbubuno
Tajik: гӯштингирӣ (güštingiri)
Tatar: көрәш (tt) (köräş)
Thai: มวยปล้ำ (th) (muai-bplâm)
Tibetan: ཨབ་ཐང (ab thang), སྦེ་ག (sbe ga)
Turkish: güreş (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: كورش (güreş)
Turkmen: göreş
Tuvan: хүреш (xüreş), демисел (demisel)
Ukrainian: боротьба́ (uk) f (borotʹbá)
Urdu: کشتی (kušti), کشتی بازی (kušti bāzī)
Uyghur: چېلىش (chëlish)
Uzbek: kurash (uz)
Vietnamese: vật (vi), đấu vật
Yakut: тустуу (tustuu), күрэс (küres)
Yoruba: gídígbò
Zazaki: têmane

act that emulates the sport of wrestling — see professional wrestling

wrestling match

Finnish: painiottelu

act of one who wrestles

Finnish: paini

struggle to achieve something

Finnish: ponnistelu, vääntö

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

French: ^{(please verify)} catch (fr) m (Was under ”tumbling act”)
Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} pankráció (hu) (Was under ”tumbling act”)
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} lucha libre (es) f, ^{(please verify)} pressing catch m (Were under ”tumbling act”)