a sport in which two boxers fight by hitting each other while wearing large leather boxing gloves on their hands. They fight in a square area with ropes around it, called a boxing ring.
Synonyms and related words
Boxing and wrestling
arm-wrestling
bantamweight
bare-knuckle
boxing
noun uncountable
US /ˈbɑksɪŋ/
Other entries for this word
boxverb
Boxing Daynoun
hot-boxingnoun
chess boxingnoun
shadow boxingnoun
box inphrasal verb
box upphrasal verb
box offphrasal verb
DEFINITIONS1
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a sport in which two boxers fight by hitting each other while wearing large leather boxing gloves on their hands. They fight in a square area with ropes around it, called a boxing ring.