1. The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down
   "The old-timers reminisced about wrestling matches in their youth";
   - rassling [N. Amer, informal], grappling
    
2. The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
   "we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully";
   - wrestle, grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle

1. Engage in physical combat involving grappling and attempting to throw or pin down an opponent
   "The children wrestled in the garden";
   - rassle [N. Amer, informal]
    
2. Combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force
   "He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority"
    
3. Move in a twisting or contorted motion (esp. when struggling)
   "The prisoner wrestled in discomfort";
   - writhe, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist
    
4. Engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate
   "I wrestled with this decision for years"
    
5. Forcefully take something from someone's grasp
   "He had to wrestle the gun away from the attacker"

Derived forms: wrestlings

Type of: battle, combat, consider, contact sport, debate, deliberate, fight, moot, move, struggle, turn over

Encyclopedia: Wrestling