Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to mistreat, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. The behaviour is often repetitive. One essential behaviour used to assert such domination can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets. Justifications and rationalisations for such behaviour sometimes include differences of class, race, religion, gender, sexuality, appearance, behaviour, body language, personality, reputation, lineage, strength, size or ability if bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing.
