wrestler

nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,340 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: wrestlers

A wrestler is somebody who grapples as a sport. An Olympic wrestler, a sumo wrestler, the wrestler pinned him.

Olympic wrestling comes in two styles, freestyle and Greco-Roman, and the second forbids holds below the waist. Professional wrestling is a different thing entirely — scripted performance rather than contest, which its audience has always known.

Definitions of wrestler

1nounwrestlerSomebody who grapples as a sport.B1+
“The wrestler threw his opponent to the mat and pinned him down.”

wrestler is an athlete.

Where it comes from

Wrestle plus -er, from Old English wraestlian, a frequentative of wraestan, to twist. Wrest and wrist come from the same twisting.

Middle English
wrastlere
English, today
wrestler

From Middle English wrastlere, equivalent to wrestle + er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Word Building

Practise this word

wrestler in the wild

In the late 19th century, wrestlers dealt with this by quietly fixing their matches so that they could display more entertaining action.
Professional wrestling
Match fixing in sports was frowned upon then as much as it is now, so the wrestlers kept the practice a secret.
Professional wrestling
John Charles Layfield, better known by the ring name John "Bradshaw" Layfield, is an American professional wrestling color commentator, retired professional wrestler and former football player.
John Layfield
Glenn Thomas Jacobs, also known by his ring name Kane, is an American politician, actor and professional wrestler.
Kane (wrestler)
Matthew Jason Bloom is an American retired professional wrestler.
Matt Bloom

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

wrestle

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