Definition of grappling
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: grapnel
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: grappling hook
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There were some fun variations; the grappling hook could be used not just to propel Rico around, but to tie objects or enemies to each other.
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Their ideas—a grappling hook, new mystical combo-attack powers, coming back from the dead—might be a true answer to Tecmo's Souls-like game Nioh.
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Collectively known as Ringkampf, the duo offers the perfect combination of WALTER’s power mixed with Thatcher’s mat-based grappling.
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Against the Rangers on Feb. 18, Gostisbehere received his first fighting major for a grappling match with Pavel Buchnevich.
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In truly violent stories, the plot is one of grappling, and grappling with grappling.
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Their choices — which include The New Jim Crow — reflect rich scholarship, iconoclastic ideas and a serious grappling with the roots of some of today’s most pressing issues.
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With all fighters having been forced to improve their wrestling, grappling and jiu-jitsu, the playing field in those techniques has leveled.
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Pro wrestler Davey Boy Smith Jr. says his grappling experience helped him perform an act of heroism on Sunday in Canada.
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