Competition: alternatives and connections

The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.

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As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.

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To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard.

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To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.

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State of being champion; leadership; supremacy.

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A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

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One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present.

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To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.

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One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy…

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A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and e…

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something regarded with special favor or liking; "that book is one of my favorites"

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One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy.

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Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

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Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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To raze.

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One who, or that which, rubs.

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To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as,…

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One who, or that which, ties.

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One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights.

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A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery;…

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A tournament.

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The act of trying or testing in any manner.

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One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

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To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize…

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To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize…

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To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.

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To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.

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One who challenges.

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One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.

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One who contends; a contestant.

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A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife.

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To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.

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A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

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The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a competition.

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The act of cooperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor.

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The act of cooperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor.

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