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Discover Ludwig"shadow boxing" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe when someone is pretending to fight an imaginary opponent. For example: "When I was a child, my father used to teach me boxing by having me practice shadow boxing in the basement."
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shadow boxing
verb
Present participle of shadow box
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"It's all shadow boxing.
In fact, none of this shadow boxing matters very much.
But on all sides there is shadow boxing going on here.
Finally, she was able to do one round of technical shadow boxing.
The boxing workout consists of five rounds on the speed bag, five on the heavy bag and five shadow boxing.
There is shadow boxing all around.
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What's your problem?" I'll tell you the problem: Paul Simon is shadow-boxing against Simon & Garfunkel.
"Want to fight?" she asked, shadow-boxing peppily.
Roll up, roll up for the heavyweight shadow-boxing championship of the world!
"There were kids doing pads, some shadow-boxing, some in the ring.
Ali, who will compete in the light featherweight class, was shadow-boxing in the pristine ring.
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