wrestling

Etymology

From late Old English wræstlunge.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of wrestle

noun

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