boxing

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/ˈbɒksɪŋ/

noun 4

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(noun.)

ADJ

heavyweight, lightweight, middleweight, etc.

amateur, professional, unlicensed

Many young people start with amateur boxing before deciding if they want to pursue it professionally.

world

The young athlete trained hard to compete at the highest level of world boxing.

kick, Thai

shadow, shadow-boxing (= boxing with an imaginary opponent)

The politicians spent weeks shadow-boxing instead of discussing real policy differences.

VERB + BOXING

My sister started doing boxing last year and now trains three times a week.

BOXING + NOUN

circles

Many famous trainers and athletes within boxing circles have trained at that gym for decades.

Definitions

noun

A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists to head and torso; the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.

So Ukraine is on the ropes. Using that boxing metaphor, one immediately thinks of the new world heavyweight champion, the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, who was seemingly down and out under the ferocious assault of the giant Tyson Fury, but then came back to win on points at the end of a brutal 12 rounds.

noun

Material used for making boxes or casing.

Casing.

Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the enclosure of something in a package or box

packing

noun — fighting with the fists

pugilism
fisticuffs

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

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Wiktionary

I like such sports as boxing and hockey.

Tatoeba · #33582

I don't like such sports as boxing and hockey.

Tatoeba · #33583

Boxing is not always a rough sport.

Tatoeba · #33584

Boxing has been defined as the art of hitting without being hit.

Tatoeba · #33585

Boxing Day, when presents are given to the postman, the milkman, etc., is the first week-day after Christmas.

Tatoeba · #33586

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