wrestle

To fight by holding, pushing, and pulling someone, often as a sport or for fun.

• The boys wrestled on the grass.
• She wrestles for her school team.
• Have you ever wrestled with your brother?

How to use it: wrestle with someone (The guard wrestled with the intruder.)

Similar words: grapple

Common phrases: wrestle with someone, wrestle someone, wrestle for fun, wrestle professionally

To move or control something by pushing or pulling hard, especially when it is difficult.

• We wrestled the sofa upstairs.
• She wrestled the heavy bag into the car.
• He wrestled the stick away from the dog.

How to use it: wrestle something into/out of something (We wrestled the wardrobe out of the bedroom.); wrestle something away from someone (She wrestled the keys away from him.)

Similar words: manhandle, heave

Common phrases: wrestle something upstairs, wrestle something open, wrestle something away

A fight in which people hold, push, and pull each other, sometimes for fun.

• The children had a playful wrestle.
• He hurt his arm during a wrestle with his brother.
• Their wrestle ended when both boys started laughing.

Similar words: tussle, scuffle

Common phrases: have a wrestle, playful wrestle, wrestle with someone