the national style of wrestling of Japan, the object of which is to force one's opponent to touch the ground with any part of the body except the soles of the feet or to step out of the ring
Employees would rent sumo body suits and post pictures of themselves wrestling on company grounds.
The Sun (2012)
Another employee got whiplash while taking part in a fight while wearing a sumo wrestler suit.
The Sun (2016)
What of the rabbi who eats more than a sumo wrestler?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Did you know jellyfish can be as big as sumo wrestlers?
The Sun (2012)
And for still others there is the proof that sumo wrestlers cheat.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Nobody wants to see the two of us grappling like two ageing businessmen in inflatable sumo wrestler costumes.
The Sun (2016)
It was bed racing last week - with toe wrestling and sumo suit athletics still to come.
The Sun (2013)
Others join in the fun in fancy dress, perhaps as a nun or a sumo wrestler.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It's like sitting on a sumo wrestler.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In this case, the fan is wide enough for a sumo wrestler.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
I walk a bit like a sumo wrestler.
The Sun (2013)
After pointing their capacious stomachs at one another, they each then crouched down and shook a leg like an arthritic sumo wrestler.
The Sun (2009)
But this giant sumo wrestler had him sweating as he filmed a commercial in New York.
The Sun (2009)
So, if sumo wrestling is your interest, acquire the terminology.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In other languages
sumo
British English: sumo NOUN
Sumo is the Japanese style of wrestling.
...a sumo wrestler.
American English: sumo
Brazilian Portuguese: sumô
Chinese: 相扑
European Spanish: sumo
French: sumo
German: Sumo
Italian: sumo
Japanese: 相撲
Korean: 스모
European Portuguese: sumo
Latin American Spanish: sumo
All related terms of 'sumo'
sumo wrestler
someone who wrestles in the national style of wrestling of Japan
sumo wrestling
the national style of wrestling of Japan , the object of which is to force one's opponent to touch the ground with any part of the body except the soles of the feet or to step out of the ring
sumo (wrestling)
a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
sumoist
someone who wrestles in the national style of wrestling of Japan
sumotori
someone who wrestles in the national style of wrestling of Japan