Duel
Wrestling
Wrestling noun - The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down.
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Duel and wrestling are semantically related in fight topic. Sometimes you can use "Duel" instead a noun "Wrestling", if it concerns topics such as battle, fighting.
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Quite a few Russian fairy tales have two people starting a duel with spears, then maces, then swords... all of these are shattered one after another, so they end up having a wrestling match.
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After he loses an arm wrestling match, he complains that his arm muscle "never healed properly" prompting him to challenge d'Hubert to a second duel.
Source: Film / The Duellists - The duel is ended by their seconds when they discard their swords and just start wrestling each other.
Source: Film / The Duellists
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