Synonyms for fighting
fight·ing

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1. fight, fighting, combat, scrapadjective

   the act of fighting; any contest or struggle

   "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"

   Synonyms:
   bit, flake, battle, fleck, conflict, rubbish, trash, fight, scrap, competitiveness, armed combat, combat, engagement, chip

   Antonyms:
   nonoperational, inactive

2. active, combat-ready, fighting(a)adjective

   engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

   "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces"

   Antonyms:
   inactive, nonoperational

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1. • Military

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1. spar

   it's literally what sparring is

   sparring is fighting

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

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1. fightingnoun

   Synonyms:
   contention, strife, quarrel, warfare

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1. List of paraphrases for "fighting":

   combat, fight, combating, battles, battle, struggling, struggle, hostilities, warring, countering, battling, fighter, confrontation, fights, combatant, combatting, battlefield, strife, tackling, striving, war, counter, militancy, gunfight, infighting

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How to use fighting in a sentence?

1. Erma Bombeck:

   ... it's simply wrong to always order kids to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.

2. Cesar Chavez, letter:

   Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves.

3. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy:

   Can we keep that commitment to America? No more misplaced priorities. The American people deserve better. America is worth fighting for. Americans rights are worth fighting for. Their dreams are worth fighting for. Their voices are worth fighting for. And most importantly, their voices are worth being heard on this floor.

4. Kim Ryon Hui:

   To my wife in South Korea, don't forget here you have parents, a husband and daughter, and a socialist nation. Keep on fighting until the end, my wife is fighting until the end right now, my whole family, my whole North Korean nation. We will all get together so that she can come back. Never stop the fighting.

5. Sun Tzu:

   If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.