Boxing is the fighting sport in which two people punch each other with padded gloves inside a square ring. A boxing match, take up boxing, professional boxing.
The ring is square despite the name. Amateur and professional boxing differ in round length, gloves and headguards. Weight divisions run from minimumweight to heavyweight, and the classes exist because size decides almost everything. Note boxing gym, shadow boxing, and that Boxing Day in Britain, the twenty-sixth of December, has nothing to do with the sport and is named after boxes of gifts for servants.
1nounboxingThe sport of fighting with padded gloves in a ring.
“He took up boxing at thirteen and stopped at nineteen.”
boxing is a sport.
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From box + -ing. box comes from Middle English box. From Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box (“box, case”), from Proto-West Germanic buhsā (“box”) from Latin buxis (“box”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πυξίς (“box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”) and πύξος (“box tree; boxwood”). a doublet of piseog and pyx and pyxis. Cognate with Middle Dutch bosse, busse (“jar; tin; round box”) (modern Dutch bos (“wood, forest”), bus (“container, box; bushing of a wheel”)), Old High German buhsa (Middle High German buhse, bühse, modern German Büchse (“box; can”)), Swedish bössa (“box”).
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