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arm wrestling [2 records]

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Record 1 2024-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wrestling
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
DEF

To take part in a contest in which two opponents sit face to face and, gripping each other's hand, palm into palm with the elbow resting on a flat surface, try to force each other's arm down without raising the elbow from the table.

CONT

Joe Frazier squeezed into a booth at his Philadelphia rib restaurant ... and propped his once-fabled left on the table. "C'mon," he said to his nephew Rodney, an amateur heavy weight who is undefeated in three bouts. It was an invitation to arm-wrestle.

OBS

Arm wrestling is also called "Indian wrestling".

Key term(s)
  • arm wrestling

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lutte
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
DEF

Participer à un genre de lutte où les concurrents essaient de s'abattre mutuellement la main sur une table en s'appuyant coude à coude sur cette table, et en s'empoignant la main droite paume contre paume. Celui qui, sans relever le coude, couche sur la table l'avant-bras de son adversaire est déclaré vainqueur.

OBS

Une partie de bras de fer, une épreuve de force.

OBS

Des sources françaises fiables donnent «bras de fer» avec ou sans traits d'union; l'expression québécoise «tir au poignet» s'écrit sans trait d'union.

Key term(s)
  • tir au poignet

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wrestling
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
DEF

A form of wrestling in which two opponents, usually facing each other across a table, rest their right or left elbows on the table and, placing their corresponding forearms upward and parallel, grip each other's hand, the object being to force the opponent's hand down so that it touches the table.

OBS

Both hyphenated and unhyphenated forms are found in reliable sources.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lutte
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
DEF

Jeu de force où les deux partenaires face à face, les mains empoignées, les coudes appuyés sur une table, cherchent à renverser le bras de l'adversaire.

CONT

Jouer au bras-de-fer. Se faire battre au bras-de-fer.

OBS

«Tir au poignet» est l'expression en usage au Québec pour désigner ce jeu.

OBS

Des sources françaises fiables donnent «bras de fer» avec ou sans traits d'union : une partie de bras de fer. Le terme québécois s'écrit toujours sans trait d'union.

Spanish

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