Meaning | A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games / games / games to decide the winner. |
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Synonym | tournament |
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Narrower | World Cup | A soccer tournament held every four years between national soccer teams to determine a world champion |
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elimination tournament | A tournament in which losers are eliminated in successive rounds |
open | A tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play |
round robin | A tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant |
Broader | contest, competition | An occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants |
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Spanish | competición, torneo |
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Catalan | torneig |
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Verbs | tourney | engage in a tourney |
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