Meanings
- pluralplural onlygovernmentA style of combat sport allowing a wide range of combat techniques such as striking and grappling.
Mixed martial arts is essentially about making the opponent tire out before you do so you are at an advantage in dealing devastating moves.
2008, Mickey Dimic, Christopher Miller, Mixed Martial Arts Unleashed: Mastering the Most Effective Moves for Victory, page 203 more examples
Though mixed martial arts has successfully peeled away fans from boxing (a sport that’s lost any compelling champions and much of its dignity) and WWE (a “sport” that’s always existed in quotation marks) it’s had trouble shaking its reputation as “human cockfighting.”
2002 April 19, Scott Tobias, “Fightville”, in AV ClubOther top talent in the Central Vision library includes Black Belt Hall of Fame members Ernie Reyes Sr., Frank Shamrock, Bill “Superfoot” Wallace, mixed-martial arts champion Pat Miletich, breaking champion Larry Fields and Olympic judo medalist Mike Swain.
2003 November, “Century Completes 100th Martial Arts Video”, in Black Belt, page 111Jiu jitsu competitions are vastly different from mixed martial arts, as they are grappling-only, and if an athlete does well in jiu jitsu, it doesn't guarantee that he'll also do well in mixed martial arts (and vice versa).
2005, Jeremy Wall, UFC′s Ultimate Warriors: The Top Ten, page 202
Origin
Translations
Afrikaans gemengde vegkuns
- gemengde vegkunsstyle of combat sport
Arabic فُنُونٌ القِتَالِ الْمُخْتَلِطَة
- فُنُونٌ القِتَالِ الْمُخْتَلِطَة (funūnun al-qitāli l-muḵtaliṭa)style of combat sport
Bengali মিশ্র মার্শাল আর্টস
- মিশ্র মার্শাল আর্টস (misro marśal arṭoś)style of combat sport
Chinese Mandarin 綜合格鬥 /综合格斗, 混合武術 /混合武术
- 綜合格鬥 /综合格斗 (zōnghé gédòu)style of combat sport
- 混合武術 /混合武术 (hùnhé wǔshù)style of combat sport
- 無限制格鬥 /无限制格斗 (wúxiànzhì gédòu)style of combat sport
Dutch mixed martial arts
- mixed martial artsstyle of combat sport
Finnish vapaaottelu
- vapaaottelustyle of combat sport
French combat libre
- combat librestyle of combat sport
German Mixed Martial Arts, gemischte Kampfkünste
- Mixed Martial Artsstyle of combat sport
- gemischte Kampfkünstestyle of combat sport
Italian arti marziali miste
- arti marziali mistestyle of combat sport
Japanese 総合格闘技
- 総合格闘技 (sōgō kakutōgi)style of combat sport
Korean 종합격투기, 이종격투기
- 종합격투기 (jonghapgyeoktugi)style of combat sport
- 이종격투기 (ijonggyeoktugi)style of combat sport
Norwegian mixed martial arts
- mixed martial artsstyle of combat sport
Polish mieszane sztuki walki
- mieszane sztuki walkistyle of combat sport
Portuguese artes marciais mistas, vale-tudo
- artes marciais mistasstyle of combat sport
- vale-tudostyle of combat sport
Russian смешанные боевые искусства
- смешанные боевые искусства (smešannyje bojevyje iskusstva)style of combat sport
Spanish artes marciales mixtas
- artes marciales mixtasstyle of combat sport
Swedish mixed martial arts
- mixed martial artsstyle of combat sport
Thai ศิลปะการต่อสู้แบบผสม
- ศิลปะการต่อสู้แบบผสมstyle of combat sport
Turkish karma dövüş sanatı, karma dövüş sanatları
- karma dövüş sanatıstyle of combat sport
- karma dövüş sanatlarıstyle of combat sport
Vietnamese võ thuật tổng hợp
- võ thuật tổng hợpstyle of combat sport
Cite this entry
mixed martial arts. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mixed%20martial%20arts
“mixed martial arts.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mixed%20martial%20arts. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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