English-Italian translations for fencing

• scherma
  E' una mossa molto efficace nella scherma, ma in politica non l' approvo. It is very effective in fencing, but I dislike it in politics.
  Con una metafora del mondo dello sport, direi che i rappresentanti del Consiglio e della Commissione, come nella scherma, hanno fatto una "schivata" . To use a sporting metaphor, the representatives of the Council and the Commission have been doing what I call the fencing side-step.
  Esistono sport prestigiosi che si sono evoluti da pratiche violente: ne è un esempio la scherma, che attualmente non comporta rischi fisici per chi la pratica.There are prestigious sports that have evolved from violent practices. One example is fencing in which, nowadays, the participants are not physical harmed.

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