a sport in which two opponents struggle hand to hand in order to pin or press each other's shoulders to the mat or ground, with the style, rules, and regulations differing widely in amateur and professional matches.Compare catch-as-catch-can (def. 3), Greco-Roman (def. 3).
the act of a person who wrestles.
Origin of wrestling
before 1100; Middle English; Old English wrǣstlunge.See wrestle, -ing1
The wrestling over the attacks continued, and turned to the chemical composition of the sarin.
The Kardashian Look-Alike Trolling for Assad|Noah Shachtman, Michael Kennedy|October 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It reminds him, not of watering little budding flowers, but of wrestling for hours with gigantic angels and devils.
A Miscellany of Men|G. K. Chesterton
The following is as complete a list of the winners of the wrestling at Melmerby Rounds, as we have been able to collect.
Wrestling and Wrestlers:|Jacob Robinson
I was much amused by the wrestling, which I had never before seen.
Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland|Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
We struggled with each other, but although our wrestling was very violent, it was very noiseless.
The Survivors of the Chancellor|Jules Verne
Not while you keep well, unless you over-drive it by running or wrestling too hard.
The Child's Day|Woods Hutchinson
British Dictionary definitions for wrestling
wrestling
/ (ˈrɛslɪŋ) /
noun
any of certain sports in which the contestants fight each other according to various rules governing holds and usually forbidding blows with the closed fist. The principal object is to overcome the opponent either by throwing or pinning him to the ground or by causing him to submitSee freestyle, Graeco-Roman, sumo