wrestling

noun4

1. •
   a sport where two people fight without weapons, each trying to hold the other down on the ground
2. •
   (old-fashioned) A wrestling match.

   • […] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry […] — 1879
3. •
   Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”).
4. •
   The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.

   • I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow[…] — 1863