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noun
A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”).
A wrestling match.
[…] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry […]
The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.
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[…]