English-French translations for fencing

• alibi
• clôture
• escrime
  C' est très efficace en escrime ; en politique, cela ne me plaît pas. It is very effective in fencing, but I dislike it in politics.
  L'escrime est de ceux-là, puisque, les escrimeurs ne subissent aucun dommage physique aujourd'hui. One example is fencing in which, nowadays, the participants are not physical harmed.
  Pour utiliser une métaphore sportive, je dirais que les représentants du Conseil et de la Commission ont pratiqué l' esquive, comme en escrime. To use a sporting metaphor, the representatives of the Council and the Commission have been doing what I call the fencing side-step.
• fourgue
• grillage
• recel

Definition of fencing

• The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing
• Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure

Examples

• Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.

Related words

• fencing-master
• geofencing
• fencing plastron
• fencing wire
• fencing mask
• academic fencing
• wheelchair fencing
• electric fencing