When you want to grab a creature or wrestle with it, you can use the action to make a special melee attack, a grapple. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the action, this attack replaces one of them. The target of your grapple must be no more than one size larger than you, and it must be within your reach.
Grapple
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Description
Using at least one free hand, you try to seize the target by making a grapple check, a Strength () check contested by the target's Strength () or Dexterity () check (the target chooses the ability to use). You succeed automatically if the target is . If you succeed, you subject the target to the condition (see the appendix). The condition specifies the things that end it, and you can release the target whenever you like (no action required).
Moving a Grappled Target
When you move, you can drag or carry the creature with you, but your speed is halved, unless the creature is two or more sizes smaller than you.