Words similar to boxing

Example sentences for: boxing

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Another inconsistency is to be found in the process of knockout , the boxing term and later the metaphoric term referring to anything that amazes or shocks.
One of the most popular facilities is the Vélodrome, with a redwood track for cycling and roller-skating around a central arena for boxing, wrestling, and basketball, with ice-skating in winter.
But ropes are a major cause of death and injury in boxing: Fighters hyperextend their necks when they are punched against the ropes, because nothing stops their heads from snapping back.
Such words as limicole, catharping, xebec, siriasis -- as well as boxing the compass, the sails of a full rigged ship, chains, deadeyes, shrouds, halyards, and stays, are all well explained in this book, including pictures of how a square--rigged warship had its sails raised, lowered, and tacked, an incredibly complicated and difficult procedure.
This is a city where Mayor Marion Barry, after his release from prison, tried to give a contract to lay sewer pipe to his friend Rock Newman, a boxing promoter.