List: sumo
Terms used in sumo, a Japanese full-contact sport.
popular sumo noun noun (generic)
- losing posture, falling position from which it is impossible to recover
- lame duck
- hopeless situation
popular sumo noun noun (generic)
- pushing (propelling) (one's opponent) out of the ring from behind
popular noun noun (generic) sumo noun (suffix)
- fall, decline, lowering, hanging down, drooping, slanting (downward)
- string apron, ornamental cords hanging from the front of a sumo wrestler's belt
- food offering to the gods, leftovers, hand-me-downs
- leaving (one's master's place for home)
- a little after ...
popular noun noun (generic) sumo
- bill, account
- very successful amateur wrestler, allowed to start professional career in makushita division
popular sumo noun noun (generic)
- third lowest division
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb sumo
- to hang on to, to hang from, to cling to
- to hound, to keep after (someone), to refuse to back down, to persist, to tenaciously face (someone), to doggedly oppose
- to grab the front of the opponent's mawashi, place one's head against their chest, and lower one's hips
popular sumo noun noun (generic)
- entrance procession of wrestlers into the ring
popular rarely used kanji form martial arts sumo noun noun (generic)
- pinning technique (in wrestling or judo)
- underhanded dealings
popular sumo noun noun (generic)
- clincher, winning technique, official winning technique
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb sumo intransitive verb
- to partition, to divide, to mark off
- to direct, to manage, to run, to organize, to take responsibility for
- to settle accounts
- to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout), to poise oneself for the initial charge