If you decide to wrestle on a team in high school, you'll be grabbing your opponent and trying to fling him to the ground while he tries to do the same to you. You might want to consider the ping pong team instead.
To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent;
Noun
the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat; "they had a fierce wrestle"; "we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully"
Verb
engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate; "I wrestled with this decision for years"
Verb
combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force; "He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority"
Verb
engage in a wrestling match; "The children wrestled in the garden"
Verb
to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt''s embrace"
v. t.
To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or
throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
v. t.
Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
v. t.
To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
n.
A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the
other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.
Wrestle
To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well.
Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.2.
Come, wrestle with thy affections.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood.
Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled.
Wrestle
Wrestle
Whom in a wrestle the giant catching aloft, with a terrible hug broke three of his ribs.
To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent;
To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.
Usage Examples
I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.
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Other Usage ExamplesPeople wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they're drenched in sweat.
'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up 'girl' women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.
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