judo
noun/ˈdʒuːdəʊ/
/ˈdʒuːdəʊ/
[uncountable] (from Japanese)- a sport in which two people fight and try to throw each other to the ground
- He does judo.
- She's a black belt in judo.
- She managed to get the man in a judo hold.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + judo- do
- practise/practice
- learn
- …
- hold
- move
- throw
- …
- a black, etc. belt in judo
Word Originlate 19th cent.: Japanese, from jū ‘gentle’ + dō ‘way’.
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