karate
(kərɑːti )
uncountable noun B2
Karate is a Japanese sport or way of fighting in which people fight using their hands, elbows, feet, and legs.
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Collocations:
karate class karate kick karate move
The trio, who met at a karate class, claim to have carried out more than 100 successful exorcisms.
The Sun
Why not join the karate class yourself?
The Sun
I don't want them to miss a karate class.
Times, Sunday Times
His bandmates take him to a hand doctor but end up in a karate class by mistake.
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He took his first karate class at the age of six.
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There was a karate kick on him as well that was missed.
The Sun
They pout and pose, karate kick and turn, all the time holding the steady professional expressions of catwalk veterans.
Times, Sunday Times
In one, he headbutted a bloke, in another it was a karate kick.
Times,Sunday Times
We then spent an agreeable five minutes acting out ludicrously fake karate moves.
Times, Sunday Times
Moments later, in the same studio, we see him, a figure of intensity, practising karate moves.
Times, Sunday Times
Check out the karate moves.
Times, Sunday Times
Or maybe stereotyping them by suggesting they all went around performing karate moves on each other.
The Sun
You made the headlines earlier this year fighting off three would-be muggers by doing eye-watering karate moves.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 空手道
Japanese: 空手
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