Words similar to punching

Example sentences for: punching

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"We'll travel fast and light," the song goes--as the animal soars over Old Man Moon, punching him so hard that he sees stars.
No direct body-to-body contact, but plenty of punching and kicking with pads.
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.
Just about everyone else I know thinks it's odd, even "troubling" to see a serious presidential candidate run around punching people in the arm and giving nicknames to strangers.
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.