Sentence:  The pair both want to touch each other, and indulge in a series of <WSD>fencings</WSD> and parryings in the hope of attaining their desire. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing)