Bout
Bout noun - A competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize.
Usage example: undoubtedly the team's best wrestler, he hasn't lost a bout yet
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Synonyms for Bout
Event
Event noun - A competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize.
Usage example: figure skating is usually one of the most popular events in the winter Olympics
Bout is a synonym for event in performance topic. You can use "Bout" instead a noun "Event", if it concerns topics such as race, competition.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| special | special bout | special event |
| similar | similar bout | similar event |
| common | common bout | common event |
| single | single bout | single event |
| Other adjectives: small, actual, entire, massive, big, serious, bad, horrible, disastrous, famous, new, major, significant, random, next, last, occasional, recent, earlier, sudden, upcoming, biggest. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Off the Rails: Any non-competition match or event was capable of turning into this at a moment's notice (such as this bout in the Seventh Wars All-Stars sideshow tournament).
Source: Series / Robot Wars -
And just because bigger name Yuji Nagata, who fought at the same event, lost his bout (before Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipóvic, nothing less).
Source: Wrestling / Antonio Inoki -
They always occur at the end of a day and are thus usually in the proximity of an important plot event, and it's (usually) the first time you're able to bout a member.
Source: Climax Boss
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