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Sparring with an imaginary opponent (for exercise or training)
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shadowboxing
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Shadowboxing is an exercise used in the training for combat sports , especially, as its name implies, in boxing . It is used mainly to prepare the muscles before the person training engages in stronger physical activity. In shadowboxing, only one person ...
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n. A form of solo exercise, involving throwing punches at the air, and not at an opponent. vb. (present participle of shadowbox English)
Usage examples of shadowboxing.
It is not my intention to visit your office regularly for the next twenty years for the sole purpose of shadowboxing with you.
Lying there, he realizes he’s already positioned for the coffin, posed for eternity, and that recognition makes him roll up to his feet and begin his shadowboxing, working up a sweat.
Here he was, shadowboxing with unseen antagonists, and he still wasn't sure whether or not what he had found was his.
There was good air and light and I worked quite hard, skipping rope, shadowboxing, doing abdominal exercises lying on the floor in a patch of sunlight that came through the open window, and occasionally scaring the professor when we boxed.