Synonyms of the word tourney


TOURNEYCOMPETITION - CONTEND - CONTEST - FIGHT - STRUGGLE - TOURNAMENT

tourney

  • n. Tournament.
  • v. (archaic) To take part in a tournament.

competition

  • n. (uncountable) The action of competing.
  • n. (countable) A contest for a prize or award.
  • n. (uncountable, collectively) The competitors in such a contest.

contend

  • v. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
  • v. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
  • v. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

contest

  • n. (uncountable) Controversy; debate.
  • n. (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.
  • n. (countable) A competition.
  • v. (intransitive) To contend.
  • v. (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
  • v. (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
  • v. (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course…

fight

  • v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
  • v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
  • v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
  • n. An occasion of fighting.
  • n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
  • n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
  • n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
  • n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
  • n. The will or ability to fight.
  • n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

struggle

  • n. Strife, contention, great effort.
  • v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
  • v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

tournament

  • n. (historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights…
  • n. A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single…
  • n. (graph theory) A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.

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