Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
armlock | a wrestling hold; (verb) to put in such a hold. |
backbreaker | a wrestling hold in which a wrestler uses his knee or shoulder as a fulcrum to bend his opponent's body backwads. |
backfall | a fall or throw on the back in wrestling. |
bearhug | in wrestling, to grip an opponent tightly round the chest. |
buttock | either side of the rump or protuberant part at the back of the body above the legs; (verb) in wrestling, to throw by a manoeuvre using the buttocks or hip. |
catchweight | in wrestling, relating to a contest in which normal weight categories have been waived by agreement. |
chokehold | the act of holding a person's neck across the windpipe, esp from behind. |
espoir | (Fr.) a category of wrestler. |
facebar | a type of wrestling hold. |
grovet | a wrestling hold where the head is gripped and forced to the floor. |
hammerlock | a wrestling hold. |
headlock | a wrestling hold. |
makunouchi | (Japanese) the highest division in sumo wrestling. |
nelson | a wrestling hold. |
outwrestle | to surpass in wrestle. |
ozeki | (Japanese) a champion sumo wrestler. |
palaestra | (Hist.) a wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general. |
palaestral | related to a palaestra, a wrestling school. |
palaestric | relating to a palaestra, a wrestling school. |
palaestrical | relating to a palaestra, a wrestling school. |
palestra | (Lat.) a wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general. |
palestral | relating to a palestra, a wrestling school. |
pinfall | a type of wrestling fall. |
rassle | (Coll.) to wrestle. |
rassler | a wrestler. |
rikishi | (Japanese) a sumo wrestler No -S. |
smackdown | a wrestling bout; a chastisement or defeat. |
stranglehold | an illegal wrestling hold by which one's opponent is choked. |
sumo | (Japanese) a form of wrestling. |
sumoist | one who practises sumo. |
sumotori | (Japanese) a sumo wrestler. |
suplex | a kind of wrestling hold. |
warsle | to wrestle. |
warsler | a wrestler. |
warstle | to wrestle. |
warstler | a wrestler. |
wrassle | to wrestle. |
wrastle | to wrestle. |
wraxle | (Dial.) to wrestle. |
wrestle | to engage in a type of hand-to-hand contest. |
wrestler | one that wrestles. |
wristlock | a wrestling hold involving a lock on the wrist. |
yokozuna | (Japanese) a champion sumo wrestler. |