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wrestlings

wrestlings is the plural of wrestling.

Meaning of wrestling

Noun

wrestling (countable and uncountable, plural wrestlings)

  1. A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
  2. (countable, dated) 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 […]1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 4, page 42
  3. (countable) 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[…]1863, Jean Ingelow, “Honors”, in Poems

Questions about wrestlings

What is wrestlings the plural of?
Wrestlings is the plural of wrestling.

Words near wrestlings in the dictionary

  1. wrestling
  2. wrestling ring
  3. wrestling rings
  4. wrestling with
  5. wrestling with a pig
  6. wrestlings
  7. Wrestlingworth
  8. Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley
  9. wrests
  10. wretch
  11. wretche

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