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Wrestling vs Handling - What's the difference?

wrestling | handling |

As verbs the difference between wrestling and handling

is that wrestling is present participle of lang=en while handling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between wrestling and handling

is that wrestling is a sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points while handling is a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.

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

    handling

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) handlinge, hondlunge, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
  • * Edmund Spenser
  • The heavens and your fair handling / Have made you master of the field this day.
  • * 1864 , Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
  • at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings , &c.
  • (arts) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
  • (Fairholt)
  • A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
  • Etymology 2

    From handle.

    Verb

    (head)
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