arm wrestling

See also: arm-wrestling

English

Men preparing to arm wrestle

Alternative forms

• arm-wrestling

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːm ˌɹɛs.lɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹm ˌɹɛs.lɪŋ/

Noun

arm wrestling (uncountable)

1. A strength sport with two participants, in which each participant grips the other's hand and tries to pin the other's arm onto a surface.

Related terms

• arm-wrestle
• arm wrestler

 

Translations

a sport

• Adyghe: ӏэтэчэн (ʼɛtɛčɛn)
• Afrikaans: armdruk
• Arabic: مُصَارَعَة ذراعية f
• Azerbaijani: armrestlinq
• Bulgarian: канадска борба f (kanadska borba)
• Catalan: torcebraç (ca) m
• Cebuano: bo, gangi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 拗手瓜 (aau² sau² gwaa¹)

  Hokkien: 遏手把 (zh-min-nan) (at-chhiú-pà)

  Mandarin: 比腕力 (bǐwànlì), 掰手腕 (zh) (bāishǒuwàn), 扳手勁 / 扳手劲 (bānshǒujìn), 掰腕子 (bāiwànzi)

• Czech: sportovní přetláčení rukou m, přetláčení m, páka (cs) f
• Danish: armlægning c
• Dutch: armworsteling f
• Esperanto: pojnduelo
• Estonian: käesurumine
• Finnish: kädenvääntö (fi)
• French: bras de fer (fr) m
• Georgian: მკლავჭიდი (mḳlavč̣idi)
• German: Armdrücken n, Armwrestling n (competitive)
• Greek: μπρα-ντε-φέρ (el) n (bra-nte-fér), μπραντεφέρ (el) n (brantefér), πάλη βραχίονα (el) f (páli vrachíona), χειροπάλη (el) f (cheiropáli)
• Hebrew: הוֹרָדֵת יָדַיִם (he) f, הוֹרָדֵת ידיים (he) f
• Hungarian: karbirkózás, szkander (hu)
• Icelandic: sjómaður (is) m
• Indonesian: panco (id)
• Italian: braccio di ferro m
• Japanese: アームレスリング (ja) (āmu resuringu), 腕相撲 (ja) (うでずもう, udezumō)
• Korean: 팔씨름 (palssireum)
• Kyrgyz: кол күрөш (kol küröş)
• Malayalam: പഞ്ചഗുസ്തി (pañcagusti)
• Maltese: tal-id
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: håndbak m

  Nynorsk: handbak m

• Persian: مچ‌اندازی, مچ اندازی
• Polish: siłowanie na rękę (pl) n, siłowanie się n, siłowanie się na rękę n
• Portuguese: queda de braço f, braço de ferro (pt) m, luta de braço f, quebra de braço f
• Romanian: skandenberg n, skanderbeg n
• Russian: борьба́ на рука́х f (borʹbá na rukáx), армре́стлинг (ru) m (armrɛ́stling), рукобо́рье (ru) n (rukobórʹje), армспо́рт (ru) m (armspórt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хр̀ва̄ње рукама n

  Roman: hr̀vānje rukama n

• Spanish: pulso (es) m, fuercitas m, pulseada (es) f
• Swedish: armbrytning (sv) c
• Tajik: дастхобонӣ (dastxoboni)
• Turkish: bilek güreşi (tr)
• Ukrainian: рукоборство (rukoborstvo), армрестлінг (armrestlinh)
• Uzbek: armrestling
• Vietnamese: vật tay, gồng tay

Verb

arm wrestling

1. present participle and gerund of arm wrestle

Further reading

• arm wrestling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia