Combat and Tournament

Combat

Combat noun - Active fighting during the course of a war.

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Tournament and combat are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tournament" instead a noun "Combat".

Tournament noun - A competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize.

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Combat and tournament are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Combat" instead a noun "Tournament".

Nearby Word: tourney

individual	individual combat	individual tournament
similar	similar combat	similar tournament
normal	normal combat	normal tournament
regular	regular combat	regular tournament
Other adjectives: standard, original, proper, single, brutal, medieval, actual, real, little, final, deadly, next, magical, one-on-one, gladiatorial.

You Can Barely Stand: Wilfred of Ivanhoe meets Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert as challenger in a trial by combat despite barely having recovered of his wounds from the tournament.

Source: Literature / Ivanhoe
The game has the Backyard Battles, but they're completely optional and are more a series of specific challenges than a tournament-style combat.

Source: Inevitable Tournament
Their presence is often justified — if the fighting in question is a Tournament or Blood Sport, for example — but they'll just as easily show up in real battle-to-the-death combat, in which case their presence may cause large amounts of Fridge Logic.

Source: Combat Referee

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