boxing ring
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1.9
- noun
- /ˈbɑksɪŋ rɪŋ/
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ring de boxeo
- The boxers stepped into the boxing ring to begin their match.
Because maybe what helps you in the boxing ring is being angry, right?
- Because maybe what helps you in the boxing ring is being angry, right?
- OK, I walk in in the middle, they got a boxing ring set up.
- What's the biggest mistake, be it in the boxing ring or in business that Oscar De La Hoya's made?
- What's the biggest mistake, be it in the boxing ring or in business, that Oscar De La Hoya has made?
- But you have to be delusional in the boxing ring to make sure no matter what goes on, you're there like, I will win, I'm going to beat anyone and have No Fear.
- Sometimes me in a boxing ring, football pitch.
Examples
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I show my students Raging Bull and play the opening where De Niro, bouncing on his toes, warms up in the boxing ring.
Fiction book (1995) -
Imagine you are in a boxing ring, going blow to blow with the toughest opponent you will ever face.
Blog text (4) -
Because maybe what helps you in the boxing ring is being angry, right?
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Not just the greatest man to enter a boxing ring, one of the greatest men to enter this world.
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It's been ten years since George Foreman set foot in a boxing ring.
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Because the boxing ring is the only place in this academy where everybody's equal.
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On his second or third visit there, he got into a boxing ring with another guy who really knew how to box, and he, being a boy from the country, did.
Fiction book (1990) -
Alain enters the boxing ring.
Fiction book (1998) -
On June 14th, the County's top law enforcer had officially entered the boxing ring with the Illinois Attorney General.
Blog text (30) -
We see instead a medium traveling shot of an old man with shuffling feet, tentatively walking around the perimeter of a boxing ring by holding on to the ropes.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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2.8
A square platform with ropes where two people try to make each other fall
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4.9
A square area with ropes where boxers fight
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'boxing' (the sport) with 'ring' (a performance/competition platform), so the meaning 'the area where boxing matches occur' is directly derivable from its parts and follows a regular noun+noun composition. Although 'ring' often implies a circular shape and a boxing ring is square, that minor shape mismatch does not prevent a B1 learner who knows both words from understanding it as the competitive space for boxing.
Etymology
Boxing ring may come from old fights held inside a circle or a real ring of people and later ropes around the fighters. Even after the fighting area became square, the word 'ring' stayed, so boxing ring now means 'a square area with ropes where boxers fight'.