A "throw" is the name given to the attacks used when you grab and attack your oponent in a fighting game. It is usually done by pressing two buttons at once.

However, although a selct few of these attacks involve actual throwing, not all of them do - in fact most of them involve you grabing your oponent for a split second, then letting go, and then kicking them or stabbing them. So should we think of a new name for them?

I tried calling them "Close Attacks", but that didn't work as; 97% of fighting game attacks are "close" to your oponent (sometimes a character gets a long range attack, to a bit more unfair.)