wrestling

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”).
3. (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 […]”

4. (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[…]”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of wrestle