Words similar to punching

Example sentences for: punching

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Their arms got a good workout from the push-ups and punching; abs, from the sit-ups; and the lower body, from the kicking.
You might call that "rain," but we don't . It provokes a mixture of sadism and sympathy from reporters, who proceed to turn the hapless flack into a human punching bag.
Then there was more kicking: Turning kicks, straight kicks, low kicks, kicks with punching bags, kicks with partners … the list goes on.
Another theory holds that Asian women in particular have better designed hips than Caucasians, making them like inflatable punching toys that can't be knocked down, thus less likely to suffer hip fractures.
Yet this was nothing like the tae kwon do sparring: They weren't clocking each other, just repeating the motions of punching and blocking over and over again.