Definitions
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- noun sumo The
ring , made of compactedclay , in which asumo wrestling match is held.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When you tap the lever, the "dohyo" the ring that the players wrestle in shakes, making the wrestlers move.
Archive 2009-08-01 Michael James 2009
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Women cannot touch or enter the sacred wrestling ring, the "dohyo," lest they contaminate it with their "impurity."
NYT > Home Page By DANIEL KRIEGER 2010
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The Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino is building an authentic dohyo, or ring, and hopes to pack in about 12,000 people per night at $75 a pop and up.
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He had an odd, direct style of speech that, outside the dohyo at least, was stripped of politeness and the traditional niceties.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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He was wearing montsuki and hakama just as if he were about to step into the dohyo to begin a match.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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Also, during the long summer evenings, these temples are wrestling - grounds, free to all who love wrestling; and in many of them there is a dohyo-ba, or wrestling-ring.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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In kgb's first ever Super Bowl commercial - it's kgb vs the web, as two guys step into the dohyo (Sumo ring) to answer the question, "How do you say 'I surrender'?" to a 600 lb. Sumo
WN.com - Articles related to Iran could halt 20% uranium enrichment if given fuel 2010
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Sumo is a competitive contact sport where a wrestler (rikishi) attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring (dohyo) or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet.
WN.com - Articles related to Iran could halt 20% uranium enrichment if given fuel 2010
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Wrestlers wash their faces, mouths and armpits before entering the dohyo (ring), on whose sacred sand neither shoes nor women may tread.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Masahiro Matsumura 2010
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A modern dohyo is a circle of rice-straw bales 4.55 meters in diameter, mounted on a square platform of clay 6. 7m on a side, and 34 to 60 cm high.
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While women compete in amateur sumo, they cannot fight professionally and are banned from even stepping on to the dohyo – a dirt-covered circle marked out with half-buried rice-straw bales – used in the six main tournaments held every year.
Women in Japan allowed to take part in ‘naked festival’ for first time Justin McCurry 2024
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