Fight
Fight verb - To oppose (someone) in physical conflict.
Warming up and fight are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Warming up" instead a verb "Fight".
Warming up
Fight and warming up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fight" instead a verb "Warming up".
Both terms in one sentence
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In Elf, Michael starts warming up to Buddy after a snowball fight.
Source: Snowball Fight -
In Wild ARMs 5, before the second to final boss fight in the game Dean pulls off this while warming up with the final bad guy.
Source: Gun Kata - The original Arcade of the sequel eventually had the characters confront Terumi, beat him... then Terumi reveals that he's just warming up and he summons Noel, turned into a mindless monster bent on destroying the world, to fight you... and the game ends.
Source: Cliffhanger / Video Games
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