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
• 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: 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 m
• Slovene: boks (sl) m
• Spanish: boxeo (es) m, box (es) m
• Swahili: ndondi (sw)
• Swedish: boxning (sv) c
• Tagalog: boksing
• 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 ropes
• on the canvas
• on the mat
• uppercut
• prizefighting
• ring
• 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