- Company has one thousand on petition for race to be held - Competitor - Contest between rivals - Tournament trial - The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what
another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the
same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for
approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged
in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for
before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed
with.
- Challenger - Competitor - Opponent - A person having a common right or privilege with another; a
partner. - One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one
striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to
obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in
love; rivals for a crown. - Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in
competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or
pretensions. - To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some
object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.