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

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.
   • 2024 May 24, Timothy Garton Ash, “Ukraine can still recover with bolder western support – but right now it’s on the ropes”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 December 2024:

     So Ukraine is on the ropes. Using that boxing metaphor, one immediately thinks of the new world heavyweight champion, the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, who was seemingly down and out under the ferocious assault of the giant Tyson Fury, but then came back to win on points at the end of a brutal 12 rounds.

Synonyms

• (sports): fisticuffs, pugilism, sparring

Hyponyms

• kickboxing
• shadowboxing

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• box
• boxer

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 (gl) m Georgian: კრივი (ḳrivi), ბოქსი (boksi) German: Boxen (de) n Greek: πυγμαχία (el) f (pygmachía), μποξ (el) n (box) Ancient: πυγμαχία f (pugmakhía), πυγμή f (pugmḗ) 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 (ms), 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