the act or method of restarting play in which the two opposing packs of forwards group together with heads down and arms interlocked and push to gain ground while the scrum half throws the ball in and the hookers attempt to scoop it out to their own team
2. informal
a disorderly struggle
verbWord forms: scrums, scrumming or scrummed
3. (intransitive; usually foll bydown) rugby
to form a scrum
Word origin
C19: shortened from scrummage
Examples of 'scrumming' in a sentence
scrumming
Our scrumming session this week wasn't too crazy.
The Star (South Africa) (2008)
Both scrumming lineouts are very good.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I remember the evening ending with the two front rows scrumming down in a bar.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
In the past, we've been guilty of having ten to 15-minute slots for scrumming sessions.