boxing

See also: bóxīng

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒksɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) enPR: bäksʹĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːksɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒksɪŋ
• Hyphenation: box‧ing

Etymology 1

From box (“to punch”) +‎ -ing.

Verb

boxing

1. present participle and gerund of box

Noun

A boxing match.

boxing (uncountable)

1. (sports) A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists to head and torso; the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.

Synonyms

• (sports): fisticuffs, pugilism, sparring

Hyponyms

• kickboxing
• shadowboxing

Derived terms

• antiboxing
• bare-knuckle boxing
• boxaerobics
• boxercise
• boxing kangaroo
• Burmese boxing
• chess boxing
• drunken boxing
• foxy boxing
• kickboxing
• kick-boxing
• nonboxing
• postboxing
• shadow boxing
• shadowboxing
• shadow-boxing
• soft boxing
• Tae Bo
• Thai boxing
• white-collar boxing

Related terms

• box
• boxer
• boxing glove
• boxing match
• boxing ring

Translations

the sport of boxing

Afrikaans: boks (af) Albanian: boks (sq) m Arabic: مُلَاكَمَة (ar) f (mulākama) Hijazi Arabic: ملاكمة f (mulākama) Armenian: բոքս (hy) (bokʻs), բռնցքամարտ (hy) (bṙncʻkʻamart) Asturian: boxéu Azerbaijani: boks (az) Bashkir: бокс (boks) Belarusian: бокс m (boks) Bengali: বক্সিং (bokśiṅ) Bulgarian: бокс m (boks) Burmese: လက်ဝှေ့ (my) (lakhwe.) Catalan: boxa (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 拳擊 / 拳击 (zh) (quánjī, quánjí) Czech: box (cs) Danish: boksning (da) Dutch: boksen (nl) n Esperanto: boksado Estonian: poks Finnish: nyrkkeily (fi) French: boxe (fr) f, pugilat (fr) m Galician: boxeo m Georgian: კრივი (ḳrivi) German: Boxen (de) n Greek: πυγμαχία (el) f (pygmachía), μποξ (el) n (box) Ancient: πυγμαχία f (pugmakhía) Haitian Creole: boksè Hawaiian: kuʻi, moko, mokomoko, Hebrew: אִגְרוּף (he) m (igrof) Hindi: बॉक्सिंग f (bŏksiṅg) Hungarian: ökölvívás (hu) Icelandic: hnefaleikar m pl, box (is) n Ido: boxo (io) Indonesian: tinju (id) Irish: dornálaíocht f Italian: boxe (it) f, pugilato (it) m Japanese: ボクシング (ja) (bokushingu), 拳闘 (ja) (kentō) Kazakh: бокс (boks) Korean: 권투 (ko) (gwontu), 복싱 (ko) (boksing) Kyrgyz: бокс (boks) Latin: pugilātiō f Latvian: bokss m Lithuanian: boksas m Luhya: endondi Macedonian: бокс m (boks) Malay: boksing, tinju (ms) Maori: momoto, motomoto, mekemeke Marathi: बॉक्सिंग f (bŏksiṅga) Mongolian: бокс (mn) (boks) Norwegian: boksing (no) m or f Occitan: bòxa (oc) f Ojibwe: gagwedaganaanding Persian: بوکس (fa) (boks) Polish: boks (pl) m Portuguese: boxe (pt) Romanian: box (ro) n Russian: бокс (ru) m (boks) Scottish Gaelic: dòrnaireachd Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бокс m Roman: boks (sh) m Sinhalese: බොක්සිං (boksiṁ) Slovak: box (sk) m Slovene: boks (sl) m Spanish: boxeo (es) m, box (es) m, pugilismo (es) m Swahili: ndondi (sw) Swedish: boxning (sv) c Tagalog: boksing Tahitian: moto Tajik: бокс (tg) (boks) Tatar: бокс (boqs) Telugu: ముష్టియుద్ధము (te) (muṣṭiyuddhamu) Thai: มวยสากล (muay săa-gon) Turkish: boks (tr), yumrukoyunu (tr), mülakeme, kunt (tr) Turkmen: boks (tk) Ukrainian: бокс (uk) m (boks) Urdu: مکے بازی (mke bāzī) Uzbek: boks (uz) Vietnamese: quyền Anh (vi), quyền thuật (vi)

See also

(terms associated with boxing):

• clinch
• down for the count
• fancy footwork
• left hook
• on the canvas
• on the mat
• on the ropes
• prizefighting
• ring
• uppercut
• wrestling

• boxing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• boxing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From box +‎ -ing.

Noun

boxing (plural boxings)

1. Material used for making boxes or casing.
2. (construction) Casing.
3. (object-oriented programming) Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “programming”): unboxing

Hyponyms

• autoboxing

Derived terms

• Boxing Day
• boxing time

Translations

automatic conversion of value types to objects

Finnish: käärintä (fi)

Verb

boxing

1. present participle and gerund of box