All competition synonyms

noun competition

• contest — A contest is a competition or game in which people try to win.
• championship — A championship is a competition to find the best player or team in a particular sport.
• clash — When people clash, they fight, argue, or disagree with each other.
• meeting — an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races: a track meet.
• tournament — a trial of skill in some game, in which competitors play a series of contests: a chess tournament.
• fight — a battle or combat.
• trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
• game — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
• race — Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland.
• struggle — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
• sport — an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
• rivalry — the action, position, or relation of a rival or rivals; competition: rivalry between Yale and Harvard.
• match — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
• candidacy — Someone's candidacy is their position of being a candidate in an election.
• run — execution
• contention — Someone's contention is the idea or opinion that they are expressing in an argument or discussion.
• antagonism — Antagonism between people is hatred or dislike between them. Antagonisms are instances of this.
• tilt — to furnish with a tilt.
• puzzle — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
• strife — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
• quiz — an informal test or examination of a student or class.
• counteraction — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
• jungle — a novel (1906) by Upton Sinclair.
• opposition — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
• bout — If you have a bout of an illness or of an unpleasant feeling, you have it for a short period.
• controversy — Controversy is a lot of discussion and argument about something, often involving strong feelings of anger or disapproval.
• racing — a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
• warfare — the process of military struggle between two nations or groups of nations; war.
• matchup — a pairing or combining; linkage: a match-up of federal funds with state aid.
• striving — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
• tug-of-war — an athletic contest between two teams at opposite ends of a rope, each team trying to drag the other over a line.
• war — a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
• battle — A battle is a violent fight between groups of people, especially one between military forces during a war.
• rat race — any exhausting, unremitting, and usually competitive activity or routine, especially a pressured urban working life spent trying to get ahead with little time left for leisure, contemplation, etc.
• go for it — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• concours — a contest, esp the concours d'élégance
• do or die — reflecting or characterized by an irrevocable decision to succeed at all costs; desperate; all-out: a do-or-die attempt to halt the invaders.
• dog eat dog — marked by destructive or ruthless competition; without self-restraint, ethics, etc.: It's a dog-eat-dog industry.
• horse race — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
• one on one — consisting of or involving direct individual competition, confrontation, or communication; person-to-person: a one-on-one discussion.
• one-upping — to get the better of; succeed in being a point, move, step, etc., ahead of (someone): They one-upped the competition.