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

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

California growers and winemakers of all sizes are wrestling with an oversaturated market due to a steep drop in consumer demand and the loss of the majority of wine exports to Canada. — Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026

From suicides to sextortion, parents and their children are wrestling with how social media and AI chatbots could be harming people’s mental and physical health. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Soon all knowledge workers will face the same crisis of meaning that mathematicians are wrestling with today. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026