Usually means: Artistic, skilled fencing with swords.
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  1. swordplay: Merriam-Webster
  2. swordplay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swordplay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. swordplay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. swordplay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Swordplay, swordplay: Wordnik
  7. swordplay: Wiktionary
  8. swordplay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. swordplay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. swordplay: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. swordplay: Dictionary.com
  12. Swordplay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Swordplay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. swordplay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. swordplay: Rhymezone
  16. Swordplay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. swordplay: FreeDictionary.org
  18. swordplay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. swordplay: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. swordplay: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  fighting with a sword

Similar:
fencing, swordwork, swordfight, swordery, swording, swordsmanship, sword fighting, sword drill, swordcraft, swordblade, more...

Opposite:
fencing, unarmed combat, hand-to-hand combat, grappling

Types:
fencing, jousting, broadsword, saber, more...

Adjectives:
verbal, theatrical, intellectual, much, such, little, good, fine, real, brilliant, japanese



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Similar:
fencing, swordwork, swordfight, swordery, swording, swordsmanship, sword fighting, sword drill, swordcraft, swordblade, more...

Opposite:
fencing, unarmed combat, hand-to-hand combat, grappling

Types:
fencing, jousting, broadsword, saber, more...

Adjectives:
verbal, theatrical, intellectual, much, such, little, good, fine, real, brilliant, japanese



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