Synonyms of wrestling

wrestling

verb

present participle of wrestle

as in fighting

to seize and attempt to unbalance one another for the purpose of achieving physical mastery

the sisters wrestled on the floor over the last cookie

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fighting
• grappling
• brawling
• tussling
• rassling
• battling
• scuffling
• dueling
• boxing
• contending
• punching
• combating
• hitting
• sparring
• skirmishing
• striking
• slugging
• battering
• clashing (with)
• bashing
• warring (against)
• beating
• buffeting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wrestling

The town has spent years wrestling with how to reduce aircraft noise, including past efforts to impose curfews and restrictions becoming tied up in court. — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Why attendance is the number to watch Even in a traditional school year, districts across Texas have been wrestling with chronic absenteeism since COVID-19. — Lina Ruiz october 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026

One major American political party – the Democrats – is wrestling with a large insurgency of young Socialists who want to radically re-order the economic structure of our nation. — Doug Wojcieszak, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026

After five shootings in less than a week left at least 46 people dead, South Africa is wrestling with how to tackle a spike in gun crime that threatens to undo recent progress in reducing its notoriously high murder rate. — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

Related Explore See latest videos, charts and news Set between about 1968 and 1980, McCartney starts on his isolated Scottish farm with his wife, Linda, and growing family, wrestling with what to do with his newfound freedom. — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2026

Originally from Newcastle upon Tyne, Satterley began wrestling at 18 after being introduced to the sport by his aunt, a wrestling fan. — Lila Hempel-Edgers, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026

Menace chose art rather than wrestling, eventually moving to Kansas City and building a career as a DJ, designer and event curator. — Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026

Futurists herald the imminent arrival of abundance, prosperity, and limitless joy and, equally, joblessness and purposelessness, never quite wrestling with the contradiction between those forecasts. — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026