Grappling

Verb

1. Present participle of grapple

Full definition of grappling

Noun

1. (gerund of grapple) An act in which something is grappled or grappled with
• 2007, December 21, Bernard Holland, Yielding to Youths Fierce Enthusiasms, Despite, or maybe because of its swampy late-Romantic sentiment, ...
  the Schoenberg is irresistible to young hearts in their initial grapplings with great questions of life, death, love and suffering.