grappling

Nouns

(n) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
- they had a fierce wrestle
- we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully
hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling, grapple,
(n) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down rassling, wrestling,

Synonyms

hand-to-hand struggle wrestle wrestling grapple rassling

Words of close approximity

grappling hook grappling iron