What is "tricking"

Trick \Trick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tricked; p. pr. & vb. n. Tricking.]

1. To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.

2. To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out. `` Trick her off in air.''
   --Pope.

   People lavish it profusely in tricking up their children in fine clothes, and yet starve their minds.
   --Locke.

   They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been.
   --Macaulay.

3. To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.

   They forget that they are in the statutes: . . . there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees.
   --B. Jonson.

Tricking \Trick"ing\, a. Given to tricks; tricky.
--Sir W. Scott.

Tricking \Trick"ing\, n. Dress; ornament.
--Shak.

n. dress; ornament vb. (present participle of trick English)

Tricking is a method for indicating the tinctures (colours) used in a coat of arms by means of text abbreviations written directly on the illustration. Tricking and hatching are the two primary methods employed in the system of heraldry to show colour in black and white illustrations.

Martial arts tricking, known simply as tricking, is a training discipline that combines martial arts kicks with flips and twists from gymnastics as well as many dance moves and styles from breakdancing. It aims to achieve an aesthetic display of different combinations of "tricks". Tricking practitioners are commonly referred to as trickers or tricksters, and can come from various martial arts backgrounds. Examples of tricking techniques include the flashkick, the butterfly twist and the double leg.