TOURNAMENT: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for TOURNAMENT?

Need another word that means the same as “tournament”? Find 15 synonyms and 30 related words for “tournament” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Tournament” are: tourney, competition, contest, championship, series, meeting, meet, event, match, trial, bout, fixture, joust, jousting, tilt

Tournament as a Noun

Definitions of "Tournament" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “tournament” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner.
• A modern event involving display of military techniques and exercises.
• A series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize.
• (in the Middle Ages) a sporting event in which two knights (or two groups of knights) jousted on horseback with blunted weapons, each trying to knock the other off, the winner receiving a prize.
• (in a sport or game) a series of contests between a number of competitors, competing for an overall prize.

Synonyms of "Tournament" as a noun (15 Words)

bout	(sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive. Occasional bouts of strenuous exercise.
championship	The position or title of the winner of a championship contest. Louise Gibson retained the women s championship.
competition	A business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers. He wanted to know what the competition was doing.
contest	An occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants. A leadership contest.
event	Something that happens at a given place and time. He acted very wise after the event.
fixture	Articles attached to a house or land and considered legally part of it so that they normally remain in place when an owner moves. Plumbing fixtures.
joust	A medieval sporting contest in which two opponents on horseback fought with lances. The king and the young knights at court passed their time in jousts tournaments and the chase.
jousting	A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances. At the centre of the festivities were several days of jousting by armoured knights.
match	The score needed to win a match. If you drop a match in there the whole place will explode.
meet	A meeting typically one with an illicit purpose. The meet with Frank is on for 10 o clock.
meeting	An assembly of people for a particular purpose, especially for formal discussion. There was an informal meeting in my living room.
series	A set or sequence of related television or radio programmes. The Masterworks concert series.
tilt	A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances. The tilt of her head.
tourney	A tournament, especially a medieval joust.
trial	A test of individual ability on a motorcycle over rough ground or on a road. A sample for ten days free trial.

Usage Examples of "Tournament" as a noun

• The Royal Tournament.

Associations of "Tournament" (30 Words)

amenities	Things that make you comfortable and at ease.
arena	A place or scene of activity, debate, or conflict. He has re entered the political arena.
athlete	A person who is proficient in sports and other forms of physical exercise. He had the broad shouldered build of a natural athlete.
bagatelle	A table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over. Dealing with these boats was a mere bagatelle for the world s oldest yacht club.
ball	Baseball. The ball was already emptying out before the fire alarm sounded.
baseball	The hard ball used in baseball. There was a baseball game on every empty lot.
basketball	An inflated ball used in playing basketball.
boxing	The sport or practice of fighting with the fists, especially with padded gloves in a roped square ring according to prescribed rules (the Queensberry Rules).
championship	The position or title of the winner of a championship contest. The final round of the championship will be in Japan.
chess	A board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent’s king.
club	Go out to nightclubs. Friends and colleagues clubbed together to buy him a present.
competition	The act of competing as for profit or a prize. He wanted to know what the competition was doing.
competitively	In a way that compares favorably with others of the same nature, particularly in relation to price. They were clamouring competitively for her attention.
contest	An occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants. They contested the outcome of the race.
football	The playing of football especially in a stylish and entertaining way. Wherever the president travels a military aide stays close with the football.
game	Games the score at a particular point or the score needed to win. They were game for anything.
golf	Play golf. He was a fixture at the golf club in Rockport where he golfed until his early nineties.
inning	(baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat.
joust	Joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback. The king and the young knights at court passed their time in jousts tournaments and the chase.
pentathlon	An athletic event comprising five different events for each competitor in particular also modern pentathlon an event involving fencing shooting swimming riding and cross country running.
play	The status of the ball in a game as being available to be played according to the rules. We played hockey all afternoon.
pugilist	Someone who fights with his fists for sport.
score	Decide on the scores to be awarded in a match or competition. He studied the score of the sonata.
soccer	A form of football played by two teams of eleven players with a round ball which may not be handled during play except by the goalkeepers.
sport	Someone who engages in sports. It was considered great sport to catch him out.
stadium	An ancient Roman or Greek measure of length about 185 metres originally the length of a stadium.
volleyball	An inflated ball used in playing volleyball.
win	Win something through one s efforts. He was happy to get the win.
wrestling	The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down. We watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully.
writhe	To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling. The prisoner writhed in discomfort.