Practiced in the ring

• Practiced boxing
• Pole and Cuban possibly perhaps crossed swords
• Boxed while training
• Boxed supermarket wine
• Trained with gloves
• Fought
• Practiced for a bout
• Traded digs

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. furnish with spars fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring" box lightly fight verbally; "They were sparring all night" [also: sparring , sparred ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: spar )