Synonyms for Contesting:

• adj.

  • athletic
  • exercise-related
  ,
  • recreational
  ,
  • teamer
  .

• v.

  • battling
  • Battling
  ,
  • Combating
  ,
  • Scrambling
  ,
  • Scuffling
  ,
  • campaigning
  ,
  • conflicting
  ,
  • driving
  ,
  • engaging
  ,
  • fighting
  ,
  • struggling
  ,
  • tussling
  .

• Other synonyms:

•
• pulling
.

• Other relevant words:

• acrobatic
,
• active
,
• amateur
,
• ambitious
,
• arguable
,
• armed combat
,
• at odds
,
• bake
,
• bash
,
• beef cattle
,
• belligerent
,
• bellyache
,
• bitch
,
• boeuf
,
• breach
,
• break
,
• brush
,
• bump
,
• candidacy
,
• candidature
,
• challenger
,
• chance
,
• clang
,
• clangor
,
• clangoring
,
• clangour
,
• clank
,
• co-ordinated
,
• collide
,
• combat-ready
,
• come across
,
• coming upon
,
• commotion
,
• compete
,
• competitor
,
• conflict
,
• consider
,
• contender
,
• contradictory
,
• coordinated
,
• cope
,
• crab
,
• crash
,
• deal
,
• debatable
,
• deliberate
,
• departure
,
• deviation
,
• din
,
• disaccord
,
• disagree
,
• discordance
,
• discourse
,
• discrepancy
,
• dispute
,
• disruption
,
• dissonance
,
• divergence
,
• division
,
• drive
,
• duplicate
,
• economical
,
• electioneering
,
• engagement
,
• equal
,
• face-off
,
• fence
,
• fencing material
,
• fight
,
• find
,
• flutter
,
• folie
,
• fray
,
• free-for-all
,
• friction
,
• frugal
,
• gambling
,
• get by
,
• give-and-take
,
• grapple
,
• grilling
,
• gripe
,
• grouse
,
• gymnastic
,
• haggle
,
• haggling
,
• happen
,
• hawkish
,
• holler
,
• hoo-ha
,
• hoo-hah
,
• hurly burly
,
• imbroglio
,
• impulsive
,
• indicate
,
• inquiring
,
• inquisitive
,
• interference
,
• intriguing
,
• jar
,
• kerfuffle
,
• kick
,
• line
,
• line of reasoning
,
• literary argument
,
• logical argument
,
• make do
,
• make out
,
• manage
,
• martial
,
• match
,
• meet
,
• meeting
,
• mental disorder
,
• mental disturbance
,
• militant
,
• moot
,
• nisus
,
• noise
,
• opponent
,
• opposition
,
• oven broil
,
• pains
,
• parameter
,
• perturbation
,
• piquant
,
• play
,
• polemic
,
• polemise
,
• polemize
,
• political campaign
,
• postulate
,
• psychological disorder
,
• public debate
,
• pull
,
• quarrel
,
• quizzical
,
• reason
,
• receive
,
• remainder
,
• repugn
,
• rift
,
• rivalry
,
• row
,
• ruckus
,
• ruffle
,
• rumpus
,
• run across
,
• run into
,
• run-in
,
• rupture
,
• sceptical
,
• scotch
,
• scrap
,
• see
,
• self-contradictory
,
• severance
,
• showdown
,
• skeptical
,
• skirmish
,
• spar
,
• speculative
,
• squawk
,
• statement
,
• stinting
,
• strain
,
• struggle
,
• take on
,
• thought-provoking
,
• tilt
,
• to-do
,
• touch
,
• treatment
,
• tumult
,
• turn over
,
• twin
,
• twinned
,
• unpaid
,
• upset
,
• variability
,
• variableness
,
• variant
,
• variation
,
• vie
,
• war-ridden
,
• wondering
,
• word
,
• words
,
• wrangle
,
• Altercating
,
• Controversies
,
• Controverting
,
• Debating
,
• Differencing
,
• Discussing
,
• Disproving
,
• Disputing
,
• Encountering
,
• Fraying
,
• Litigating
,
• Managing
,
• Postulating
,
• Quarrelling
,
• Resisting
,
• Rivaling
,
• Rivalling
,
• Squabbled
,
• Squabbling
,
• Tilting
,
• Waring
,
• actioning
,
• affray
,
• altercation
,
• argue
,
• arguing
,
• argument
,
• argumentation
,
• arguments
,
• athletic
,
• battle
,
• beef
,
• brawl
,
• brawling
,
• broil
,
• broiling
,
• challenging
,
• clash
,
• clashing
,
• collision
,
• combat
,
• competing
,
• competition
,
• confrontation
,
• contend
,
• contending
,
• contention
,
• contest
,
• contestation
,
• contested
,
• controversy
,
• debate
,
• difference
,
• difference of opinion
,
• disagreement
,
• discord
,
• discussion
,
• disputable
,
• disputation
,
• disputed
,
• dissension
,
• disturbance
,
• doubting
,
• dustup
,
• embroilment
,
• encounter
,
• eventing
,
• falling out
,
• fencing
,
• feuding
,
• fracas
,
• gaming
,
• impeachment
,
• matching
,
• opposing
,
• polemical
,
• polemicise
,
• polemicize
,
• quarrelsome
,
• questioning
,
• racing
,
• ruction
,
• sparing
,
• sparling
,
• sparring
,
• strife
,
• striving
,
• trialing
,
• variance
,
• warlike
,
• warring
,
• wrangling
.
• competing
• rival
.

What are the paraphrases for Contesting?

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    answering, appearing, arguing, attacking, attending, bickering, canvassing, complaining, concerning, confronting, contending, emerging, enlisting, entering, facing, failing, fighting, joining, launching, naming, opposing, paying, protesting, running, stabbing, warring, winning, Against, Arising, Defeating, Denying, Gaining, Objecting, Querying, Replying, Responding, Robbing, Vying, Waging, Combating, Presenting, Soliciting, Suing, combatting.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    appealing, challenging, competing, doubting, participating, playing, questioning, visiting, Battling, Disputing, Nominating, Rebutting, Refuting, Contradicting.

What are the hypernyms for Contesting?

• Other hypernyms:

  challenge, competition, match, opposition, rivalry, Vying, Contesting.