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martial artist

n. 1 Someone that does culture-bound practice of idealized conflict. Usually reenacting 15th to 18th century fighting, defined by its region. 2 A practitioner of martial art.

Usage examples of "martial artist".

But I was, in those days, a very fine martial artist, and those kinds of fights —.

But I was, in those days, a very fine martial artist, and those kinds of fights -' He shrugged.

But, though they had left at the same time, it was obvious the old martial artist had been comfortably ensconced on his seat at the table for quite some time.

Probably he encountered a number of young women who wished to have a personal or sexual relationship with a master martial artist.

With a martial artist's backward leap, Blaise put the cold block of a building between him and the awful apparition.

He wore black pants and black slippers, and handled a bo staff with the ease of an expert martial artist.

Probably he en -- countered a number of young women who wished to have a personal or sexual relationship with a master martial artist.

The martial artist moved towards the tiny kitchenette in the rear of the van.

The muscular bitch with the big mouth is a martial artist of some kind.

He had blond hair, brown eyes, and pale skin: he was built with the sparse, muscular grace of a dancer or martial artist—.

The blow from Yoshida's left heel struck him just beneath the ear, the juka, as the martial artist knows it.

Barriss expanded a bubble of awareness outward, with herself at the center, realizing even as she did so that, had she not been blinded with rage at Ji, she might have sensed the intended attack in time to warn the martial artist.

Whereupon Wally Hemphill, marathoner turned martial artist, leapt from the sofa, whirled like a dervish, and delivered a spinning back kick that knocked the gun from his hand, following it with a move I couldn't follow that sent Mapes reeling across the room, right into the arms of a cop and two thugs.

The Legionnaires had run another off-style martial artist in on him, but this one had managed to translate her moves into fencing!