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One who grapples with an opponent sportingly?
Answer for the clue "One who grapples with an opponent sportingly? ", 8 letters:
wrestler
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground [syn: grappler , matman ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN sumo ▪ A gracious Chiyonofuji noted that Takahanada, in his deep attachment to each bout, was totally different from other sumo wrestlers . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A civil rights campaigner dressed as a wrestler in a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English, agent noun from wrestle (v.).
Usage examples of wrestler.
For the Martial Open was the dream tournament: the one in which boxer met wrestler, karateka met judoka, and kung-fu sifu met aikido sensei, in fights to the finish.
Blast picked Dowling up and slammed him down on the dirt as if it were a professional wrestler with the strength of a demon.
A man in faultless white who looked more like a wrestler than a cook supervised, thundering condemnations as he inspected every crate.
Takao threw the wrestler to the mat with a uki goshi rising hip throw.
Then the car was through the works and winding up a narrow, tarmacked path with a lawn on either side, interspersed with small manicured trees and wrestlers, holy men and geisha girls, laquered and life-sized.
Dusk came as they waved Pilau back toward the C-47, their prized antique engine lurching against its lashings like a petrified sumo wrestler, Reventio swinging the cargo door wide in anticipation.
All around them tumblers tumbled, musicians tootled and squeaked, and troupes of players, jugglers, wrestlers, mountebanks, pickpockets, cutpurses, prostitutes, quacksalvers, thimbleriggers, blagueurs, and the like went energetically and often noisily about their work.
Usk, the Kipchak sambo wrestler, was not as large as his partner Whale, but at six-feet two-inches and 250 pounds of muscle he was no midget.
The smiter, panther springer, trapper sly, The deadly wrestler at the crucial bout, The penetrant, the tonant, tower of towers, Striking from black disaster starry showers.
But with the contestants so morphically different from one another, monitoring safety was a lot harder than it was between human wrestlers.
He shoved himself in front of the Neut and turned to face me, his hands raised and pointing toward me like a wrestler waiting to grapple.
She had been standing at her window, thinking with horror of the impending visit of a heavyweight wrestler called Selim Hammid Bey, who claimed to be in love with her, when she suddenly saw Lem Pitkin turn the corner and pass in front of the laundry.
He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a word-processing consultant, a private pilot, and a stay-at-home dad.
He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a private pilot, a freelance instructional and web designer, and a stay-at-home dad.
He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a private pilot, a freelance instructional designer, and a stay-at-home dad.