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