"kickboxing" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Possibly borrowed from Japanese キックボクシング (kikkubokushingu), coined by Osamu Noguchi in 1964 from English kick + boxing. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|ja|キックボクシング|nocap=1|tr=kikkubokushingu}} borrowed from Japanese キックボクシング (kikkubokushingu), {{coinage|ja|Osamu Noguchi|in=1964|nocap=1|nocat=1}} coined by Osamu Noguchi in 1964, {{der|en|en|-}} English, {{compound|en|kick|boxing}} kick + boxing Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} kickboxing (uncountable)
  1. (martial arts) A hybrid martial art derived from Muay Thai, karate and especially boxing during the 1960s to 1970s; more generally, any stand-up combat sport that combines kicks and punches. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Martial arts Synonyms: kick-boxing Related terms: boxing, kick, kickboxer, Muay Thai Translations (sport): كِيك بُوكْس (kik buks) [masculine] (Arabic), 踢拳 (tīquán) (Chinese Mandarin), kickboksen [neuter] (Dutch), piedbato-bokso (Esperanto), potkunyrkkeily (Finnish), kick-boxing [masculine] (French), Kickboxing [neuter] (German), Kickboxen [neuter] (German), κικ μπόξινγκ (kik bóxingk) [neuter] (Greek), kickboxing (Indonesian), キックボクシング (kikkubokushingu) (Japanese), 킥복싱 (kikboksing) (Korean), kickboxing (Malay), kîkboksîng [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), kick boxing [masculine] (Polish), kick-boxing [masculine] (Polish), kickboxing [masculine] (Portuguese), kickboxe [masculine] (Portuguese), кикбо́ксинг (kikbóksing) [masculine] (Russian), kickboxning [common-gender] (Swedish), คิกบ็อกซิ่ง (khik b̆ xk sìng) (Thai), มวยไทย (mwythịy) (Thai), кікбо́ксинг (kikbóksynh) [masculine] (Ukrainian), quyền cước (Vietnamese)

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.