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Kendo vs Fencing - What's the difference?

kendo | fencing |

As nouns the difference between kendo and fencing

is that kendo is a Japanese martial art using "swords" of split bamboo while fencing is the art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th to 18th century European dueling swords and the practice weapons decended from them (sport fencing.

As a verb fencing is

present participle of lang=en.

kendo

English

(wikipedia kendo)

Noun

(-)
  • a Japanese martial art using "swords" of split bamboo.

    • Anagrams

    * English terms derived from Japanese ----

    fencing

    English

    (wikipedia fencing)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th to 18th century European dueling swords and the practice weapons decended from them (sport fencing)
  • * 1973 , Alan Dundes, Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel (page 253)
    • The pair both want to touch each other, and indulge in a series of fencings and parryings in the hope of attaining their desire.
  • Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
    • Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.

    Derived terms

    * geofencing

    See also

    * (wikipedia)