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Wrestling vs Folkstyle - What's the difference?

wrestling | folkstyle |

As a verb wrestling

is .

As a noun wrestling

is a sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.

As an adjective folkstyle is

(us|sports) being a style of amateur wrestling practised at collegiate and university level in the united states; the ultimate goal is to pin the opponent to the mat, and the legs can be used in offense and defense.

wrestling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia wrestling)
  • A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
  • A professional tumbling act that emulates the sport of wrestling. Also called "professional wrestling". It is distinguished from sport wrestling -- which has strict internationally recognized rules and is conducted on a mat -- by being scripted, rehearsed, conducted in a boxing ring rather than on a mat, and programmed as entertainment.
  • (countable) The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.
  • * (Jean Ingelow)
    • I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow

    See also

    * clench * hold * counter * on the ropes * on the canvas * on the mat * ring * sumo, kanjin-sumo

    folkstyle

    English

    Adjective

    (-) (wikipedia folkstyle)
  • (US, sports) Being a style of amateur wrestling practised at collegiate and university level in the United States; the ultimate goal is to pin the opponent to the mat, and the legs can be used in offense and defense.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 3, author=The Associated Press, title=A U.S. College Wrestler Sees a World of Possibility, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But there are differences in the scoring and technique between the folkstyle wrestling in college, and the freestyle at the Olympics and the world championships. }}