judo

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling; developed in Japan

Borrowed from Japanese 柔(じゅう)道(どう) (jūdō, literally “the soft way”).

Bart took it--and found himself gripped in a judo hold. — The Colors of Space, Marion Zimmer Bradley
He was nowhere to be seen, but in the bright late-morning sunshine there was a line of about twenty women, from late twenties to early forties, all dressed in white pajama-like outfits of the kind you see in judo classes, doing coordinated, slow-motion Tai Chi-like exercises. — Life Blood, Thomas Hoover

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