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

Etymology tree

Middle English box

English box

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-gō

Proto-Germanic *-ōngō?

Proto-Germanic *-ungō

Old English -ung

Middle English -ynge

English -ing

English boxing

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.
   • 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^[1], →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
• Chinese boxing
• drunken boxing
• foxy boxing
• kickboxing
• kick-boxing
• 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 (buks)
• 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 Greek: 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)
• Māori: momoto, motomoto, mekemeke
• Marathi: बॉक्सिंग f (bŏksiṅga)
• Marshallese: bait
• 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

  Latin: 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

Etymology tree

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Ancient Greek πῠ́ξος (pŭ́xos)

Pre-Greekder.

Ancient Greek -ῐς (-ĭs)

Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís)bor.

Late Latin buxisbor.

Proto-West Germanic *buhsā

Old English box

Middle English box

English box

English -ing

English boxing

From box + -ing.

Noun

boxing (plural boxings)

1. Material used for making boxes or casing.
2. (construction) Casing; temporary boxwork or boards in place acting as a mould to hold wet concrete until it sets.
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

• blue boxing
• Boxing Day
• boxing time

Translations

boxwork or boards in place to hold wet concrete until it sets

• Māori: pākaka (raima)

automatic conversion of value types to objects

• Finnish: käärintä (fi)

Verb

boxing

1. present participle and gerund of box