Gripping
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
Example sentence: You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Absorbing
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Engrossing.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.