Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punch ...
is a combat sport, also known as "western boxing".
Boxing may also refer to:
Combat sports
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Lethwei
Lethwei (; International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA: ) or Burmese boxing is a Full contact fighting, full contact combat sport originating from Myanmar and is considered as one of the most brutal martial arts in the world.}
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Muay Thai
Muay Thai or Muaythai (, , ), sometimes referred to as Thai boxing, the Art of Eight Limbs or the Science of Eight Limbs, is a Thai martial art and full-contact combat sport that uses stand-up striking, sweeps, and various clinch fighting, cl ...
or Thai boxing, a Thai martial art
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Kickboxing
Kickboxing ( ) is a full-contact hybrid Martial arts, martial art and Boxing (disambiguation), boxing type based on punch (combat), punching and kicking. Kickboxing originated in the 1950s to 1970s. The fight takes place in a boxing ring, norma ...
, a sporting martial art
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Savate
Savate (), also known as French Boxing (French language, French: ''Boxe Française'') or French Foot Fighting, is a French hybrid martial art and full-contact combat sport that combines principles of boxing, western boxing with a wide variety ...
or French boxing, a French martial art
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Sanda or Chinese boxing, a Chinese martial art
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Musti-yuddha
Musti-Yuddha (Sanskrit: मुष्टि युद्ध) is a traditional combat sport originating from the Indian subcontinent. The term literally means "fist combat", from the Sanskrit words ''muṣṭi'' (fist) and ''yuddha'' (fight, battle, ...
or Indian boxing, an Indian martial art
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Chess boxing
Chess boxing, or chessboxing, is a hybrid sport that combines two traditional disciplines: chess and boxing. Two combatants play alternating rounds of blitz chess and boxing until one wins by checkmate or knockout. It is also possible to win by ...
, a hybrid sport mixing elements from chess and boxing
Video games
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''Boxing'' (1980 video game), an Atari 2600 video game
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''Boxing'' (1981 video game), an Intellivision video game
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''Boxing'' (1990 video game), a Game Boy video game
Other
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Boxing (computer science)
In computer science, boxing (a.k.a. wrapping) is the transformation of placing a primitive type within an object so that the value can be used as a reference. Unboxing is the reverse transformation of extracting the primitive value from its wrap ...
, a process of placing a primitive type within an object so that the primitive can be used as an object
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Boxing County
Boxing County is a county of Binzhou in Shandong Province in the People's Republic of China.
History
The area of Boxing County was mostly created within the last few millennia and long remained sparsely populated owing to the destructive f ...
, in Shandong, China
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Boxing Day
Boxing Day, also called as Offering Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide (26 December). Boxing Day was once a day to donate gifts to those in need, but it has evolved to become a part ...
, a holiday
*"Boxing", 1995 song by Ben Folds Five from their
self-titled album
*"Boxing", 2023 song by Mount Kimbie from the album ''
The Sunset Violent''
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Boxing the compass
The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A '' compass rose'' is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—ea ...
, the act of naming all thirty-two points of the compass
*Boxing, the act of packing items into
boxes
See also
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Boxer (disambiguation)
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Pugilism (disambiguation)
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