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. Parlow Cone:

   I was just a very quiet, shy kid, and growing up with two brothers, it was a very physical childhood and brothers were just wrestling all the time, so I was used to that.

2. Samantha Bee:

   We spent the day wrestling with the repercussions of one bad word, when we all should have spent the day incensed that as a nation we are wrenching children from their parents and treating people legally seeking asylum as criminals, if we are OK with that then really, who are we ?

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. Dana Rohrabacher:

   We started arguing about who won the Cold War. And so we decided to settle it like men do when they've had too much to drink in the pub. So we got to these arm wrestling matches, and I ended up being paired off with Russian President Vladimir Putin, russian President Vladimir Putin's Russian President Vladimir Putin, but boy, I'll tell Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian President Vladimir Putin put me down in a millisecond ! Russian President Vladimir Putin is tough. Russian President Vladimir Putin muscles are just unbelievable.

5. David Cowan:

   Does he know what he's doing? That's what I'm wrestling with.