Shadowboxing is an English word with synonyms like exercise or practice. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Shadowboxing meaning
A form of solo exercise, involving throwing punches at the air, and not at an opponent.
Synonyms of Shadowboxing
Using Shadowboxing
- The main meaning on this page is: A form of solo exercise, involving throwing punches at the air, and not at an opponent.
- Useful related words include: exercise, practice, drill, practice session.
Context around Shadowboxing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shadowboxing
- In this selection, "shadowboxing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, political, inventing and ahead stand out and add context to how "shadowboxing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include biden are shadowboxing their way and bout of shadowboxing with no. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shadowboxing" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shadowboxing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He is widely credited for inventing shadowboxing, a training practice ubiquitous among modern boxers. (14 words)
President Donald TrumpVice President Joe Biden are shadowboxing their way from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt and back again. (21 words)
This is a real fight, not the shadowboxing on social media like so much of the Teamsters’ contract campaign was at UPS. (22 words)
It is not therefore not a time for political shadowboxing but rather a time for patriots to collaborate at all levels to support Mr President as he navigates our nation through this challenging time,” he said at the event. (39 words)
The conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East keep raging, Vladimir Putin has lowered the threshold required for Moscow to nuke Europe and Donald Trump is shadowboxing ahead of his return to the ring. (34 words)
BJP State president K. Surendran cast the latest government’s tangle with the opposition as another bout of shadowboxing with no actual injury to either party. (26 words)
Example sentences (6)
BJP State president K. Surendran cast the latest government’s tangle with the opposition as another bout of shadowboxing with no actual injury to either party.
This is a real fight, not the shadowboxing on social media like so much of the Teamsters’ contract campaign was at UPS.
It is not therefore not a time for political shadowboxing but rather a time for patriots to collaborate at all levels to support Mr President as he navigates our nation through this challenging time,” he said at the event.
The conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East keep raging, Vladimir Putin has lowered the threshold required for Moscow to nuke Europe and Donald Trump is shadowboxing ahead of his return to the ring.
He is widely credited for inventing shadowboxing, a training practice ubiquitous among modern boxers.
President Donald TrumpVice President Joe Biden are shadowboxing their way from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt and back again.