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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1. Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti:

   This is a cowardly act that has targeted innocent people, we are fighting against terrorism here. And we will keep fighting until the last terrorist is killed.

2. Bill Browder:

   I am much happier fighting for justice than I ever was fighting for money, it is just a much more meaningful and satisfying life.

3. Jana Adams:

   I never imagined that I would be the one to be fighting for this and having to go through it, but I definitely would do it over again.

4. Steve King:

   Jorge Ramos' stock in trade is identifying and trying to drive wedges between race, race and ethnicity, I should say to be more correct. When you start accentuating the differences, then you start ending up with people that are at each other's throats. And he's adding up Hispanics and blacks into what he predicts will be in greater number than whites in America. I will predict that Hispanics and the blacks will be fighting each other before that happens.

5. Billy Foster:

   At the U.S. Open he played great golf to get into the last group with American Dustin Johnson and Oakmont was just one of those courses that if you were slightly out of position you were fighting against a bogey or a double bogey, he got off to a horrendous start, he was five-over after five. The day was over and from then on it was a case of just cheerleading American Dustin Johnson home.