- A competition - Battle - Challenge or dispute - Horse race - Match - To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation,
or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to
oppose; to dispute. - To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to
defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
- An argument - Argue About - Argument, disagreement - Conflict - Quarrel - Verbal contention - To contend in argument; to argue against something
maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to
debate; to altercate; to wrangle.