The act or art of using a sword as in fencing

Usage examples of swordplay.

The swordplay was so swift and continuous, attempting to slash with both downswing and backswing, so that it looked more like fencing than sword fighting.

Painful things were illuminated there, the assassination attempt on Queen Sharma, the ruins of Fleurforet, the fall of Olbia, the dead bodies in the grasslands around the Jika forest, the execution of Georgi Serranus, the flashing of a sword, the joy of swordplay.

I was better than he was at swordplay, and I had a magickal sword as well.

He had large hands, callused and strong from swordplay, with elegant fingers, one of which now rested against the smooth swell of her breast.

With her father away, Carline had pestered Arutha into allowing Roland to teach her swordplay.

Indeed, the Gnome Cavorts About in a Most Unseemly and Ridiculous Manner, Displaying With a Small Poignard the Novice's Skill He Has Learned in Swordplay From the Rascally Rascogne, Who Has, The Mage Now Discovers To His Great Displeasure, Been Usurping the Wizard's Monopoly Over the Dwarf's Education.

He had had no experience in swordplay, no fencing lessons, no conditioned reflexes built up, and so he suddenly realized that he was not as dangerous as he would have liked to be.

It's a highly dramatic play with witches, ghosts, swordplay, a sleepwalker, and some ghastly murders, and it has plenty to say about temptation, human failure, spiritual evil, and compulsive ambition.

In his fury to avenge Doukitzes, all the careful swordplay the legionaries had drilled into him was forgotten.

While Kane’s physical presence was formidable, Wevnor was himself a man of overawing stature, and he had never seen his equal in swordplay.

While grangelords' sons were learning swordplay in their wind-sheltered courtyards, Marafice Eye was learning to cut the hands off anyone who stole sausages or pork belly from the front of his father's shop.

Three were clean kills, but the last man was in three-quarter plate and knew a bit more than the basic rudiments of swordplay.

Bran could hear the squires at their swordplay in the yard below, the ring of steel on steel.