fencing

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɛnsɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛnsɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English fensing, equivalent to fence +‎ -ing.

Noun

fencing (countable and uncountable, plural fencings)

The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
- 1973, Alan Dundes, Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel, page 253:
  The pair both want to touch each other, and indulge in a series of fencings and parryings in the hope of attaining their desire.
Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.
(slang, criminology) The buying and receiving of stolen goods.

Derived terms

Translations

sport

Arabic: مُبَارَزَة f (mubāraza)
Armenian: սուսերամարտ (hy) (suseramart)
Azerbaijani: qılıncoynatma, qılıncbazlıq
Belarusian: фехтава́нне n (fjextavánnje)
Bulgarian: фехто́вка (bg) f (fehtóvka)
Carpathian Rusyn: шаблёва́ня f (šabljovánja)
Catalan: esgrima (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 擊劍 / 击剑 (zh) (jījiàn, jíjiàn)
Czech: šerm m
Danish: fægtning (da) c
Dutch: schermen (nl)
Esperanto: skermo
Estonian: vehklemine
Finnish: miekkailu (fi)
French: escrime (fr) f
Georgian: ფარიკაობა (pariḳaoba)
German: Fechten (de) n
Greek: ξιφασκία (el) f (xifaskía)
Greenlandic: panaanneq
Hebrew: סַיִף (he) m (sayf)
Hungarian: vívás (hu)
Ido: skermo (io)
Indonesian: anggar (id)
Italian: scherma (it) f
Japanese: フェンシング (ja) (fenshingu), 剣術 (ja) (けんじゅつ, kenjutsu)
Kazakh: қылышпаздық (qylyşpazdyq), семсершілік (semserşılık)
Korean: 펜싱 (pensing), 검술(劍術) (geomsul)
Latvian: paukošana f
Macedonian: мечува́лство n (mečuválstvo)
Manx: cliwederaght f
Middle English: skirmerie
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fekting m or f

Nynorsk: fekting f
Persian: شمشیربازی (fa)
Polish: szermierka (pl)
Portuguese: esgrima (pt) f
Romanian: scrimă (ro) f
Russian: фехтова́ние (ru) n (fextovánije)
Serbo-Croatian: mačevanje (sh) n
Slovak: šerm (sk) m
Slovene: sabljanje (sl) n
Spanish: esgrima (es) f
Swedish: fäktning (sv)
Tagalog: eskrima, kanluraning eskrima
Tamil: வாள்வீச்சு (ta) (vāḷvīccu)
Turkish: eskrim (tr)
Ukrainian: фехтува́ння f (fextuvánnja)

material used to make fences

Finnish: aita tarpeet pl
German: Zaunfeld n, Absperrgitter (de) n (metal)
Macedonian: тараба f (taraba), тараби pl (tarabi)
Portuguese: cerca (pt) f
Spanish: cerca (es)

fences used as barriers or an enclosure

Bulgarian: загражде́ние n (zagraždénie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 圍欄 / 围栏 (zh) (wéilán)
Dutch: hekwerk (nl) n
Finnish: aitaus (fi)
German: Einzäunung f
Hindi: बाड़ (hi) m (bāṛ), बाड़ा (hi) m (bāṛā)
Macedonian: о́града (mk) f (ógrada)
Portuguese: cerca (pt) f
Russian: огражде́ние (ru) n (ograždénije), загражде́ние (ru) n (zagraždénije), огра́да (ru) f (ográda), забо́р (ru) m (zabór)
Spanish: vallado (es) m, cerca (es) f
Swedish: inhägnad (sv)
Turkish: çit (tr), parmaklık (tr)

receiving or buying of stolen goods

Dutch: heling (nl) f
French: recel (fr) m
German: Hehlerei (de) f
Italian: ricettazione (it) f
Portuguese: recetação f, (Brazil) receptação (pt) f
Spanish: receptación f

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fencing

present participle and gerund of fence