Synonyms for wrestling
ˈrɛs lɪŋwrestling

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1. wrestle, wrestling, grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand strugglenoun

   the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat

   "they had a fierce wrestle"; "we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully"

   Synonyms:
   grappling hook, clamshell, rassling, hand-to-hand struggle, grappling, grapple, wrestle, grappling iron, grappler, grapnel

2. wrestling, rassling, grapplingnoun

   the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down

   Synonyms:
   rassling, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, grapple, wrestle

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1. wrestlingnoun

   Synonyms:
   struggle, contention

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1. List of paraphrases for "wrestling":

   fight, catch, struggle, grappling

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1. Boris Johnson:

   Both Boris and Cameron have described this to me -- Boris claims he won the wrestling match and Cameron claims he won.

2. President Barack Obama:

   I don't think there's any politician at a national level -- that has not thought about being the president, and if you're sitting right next to the president in every meeting and, you know -- wrestling with these issues, I'm sure that for him he's saying to himself, 'I could do a really good job.'.

3. George Nield:

   We do not have formal authority today to deal with what happens on orbit or on other planetary terrestrial bodies. That’s the issue that we’re wrestling with, what is being looked at right now is a Band-Aid fix because the system is broken.

4. Suraj Achar:

   Men’s wrestling and football have the highest injury rate, but these only approximate Reidar Lystad to 35 injuries per 1,000 athletic exposures.

5. Andrew Hsu:

   It’s a problem we’ve been wrestling with for 20 years now, it’s a very delicate balance. We spend a lot of time essentially trying to determine whether a user has touched the surface or not.