Fight
Sparring
Sparring noun - Making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer.
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Fight and sparring are semantically related in scrap topic. You can use "Fight" instead a verb "Sparring".
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- In a flashback of Annie and Eren sparring together in Attack on Titan, Mikasa's implied to be jealous through interrupting them and challenging Annie to fight her instead.
Source: Double Meaning -
Rocky has to train for his fight without the benefit of sparring, so instead, he hardens himself up in the Russian winter as best he can.
Source: Film / Rocky IV - It should be noted in the Third Ali fight that he was effectively blind at the end of the fight having his good eye shut and his other eye permanently damaged from a sparring accident.
Source: Determinator / Real Life
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