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A wrestling technique whose object is to throw an opponent to the floor on his back.

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Usage examples (6)
  • He had not yet entered the word glima into the squares.
  • He was not aware that an invisible shroud had settled over the door of memory that the word glima had momentarily opened.
  • And even as he marked in the word, the name came to him which described the Icelandic wrestling: glima.
  • He was daydreaming, attempting to visualize Iceland-where there was a traditional form of wrestling known as glima.
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