grappling

grapple for (something)

To physically struggle to obtain something. I grappled for the ball with one of the players on the other team.
See also: grapple

grapple with (someone or something)

1. To physically struggle with someone else to obtain something. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "grapple" and "with." I grappled with one of the players on the other team for the ball.
2. To have difficulty in understanding or managing something. We've been grappling with a lot of technical issues since implementing that new computer system.
See also: grapple
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • grapple
  • tear loose from (someone or something)
  • (right) under (one's) (very) nose
  • suck (someone or something) into (something)
  • suck into
  • in the wrong place at the wrong time
  • brace (oneself) for (something)
  • brace oneself for
References in periodicals archive
This is the game's biggest strength - you can literally spend hours messing around with the grappling hook, blowing things up and destroying things across the map, if you don't fancy doing a mission.
With growing reputation of Team Lakay's own brand of grappling, it made the loss even more painful for the former ONE Featherweight World Champion.
O foco das aulas e a pratica da luta Submission Grappling como lazer e interacao social.
When referees met every Premier League club before the start of the season to discuss the interpretation of the laws of the game, neither the players nor the managers at each club saw grappling in the box as a problem to be addressed.
And asked yesterday if "grappling" in the area was something that needs to be dealt with, Moyes said: "It is not part of the game and the only people who can stamp it out are the referees.
Kyle Connolly won his first two fights and lost his third, while Kieran Starkey won his first two fights and lost the third on points to win a silver medal in his first ever grappling competition after just two weeks training.
Japan's prime minister made his first visit to the country's tsunami-devastated region on Saturday and entered a nuclear exclusion zone to meet workers grappling to end the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
The MMA Grappling Side Control application for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad provides extensive detail into how to secure and execute the submissions from Side Control and from the bottom.
Insp Phil Ounsley took gold at a national submission grappling tournament.
From grappling elephants to Siberian tigers tearing into each other in the snow, the images capture some of wildlife's most brutal battles.
Functions of the bucking were defined as: (1) Swing to tree stem--Starts when the loader operator finishes the previous cycle and begins moving the grapple to the next tree stem to be bucked and ends when swing movement has stopped; (2) Grappling Consists of time taken to grapple a tree stem and all the logs associated with it; (3) Swing to saw Begins when grapple swings from tree stem pile or log pile and ends when the tree stem is placed in a sawbuck or the loader is ready for bucking next log from the same tree stem; (4) Buck--Begins when the saw is positioned on the tree stem and ends when a log is completely severed.
These exclusive pictures show Charlie grappling with Peter Barlow in the street, while Tracy Barlow begs for them to stop.
Design engineers grappling with vibration and shock control issues in limited spaces, such as in most precision electronics products, are now said to be able to access the same optimized shock and vibration control properties found in the company's Isodamp elastomers, in a halogen-tree, injection-moldable formulation called Isodamp C-8002.
"The Greyston Foundation's Issan House is a model for other communities grappling with how to house a particularly vulnerable special needs population, enabling them to better manage their health and stabilize their lives."