vying, contesting, winning, medalling, jockeying, pitting, playing, contending, participating, squaring, medaling, battling, dueling, excelling, qualified, suiting, running, medaled, eying, jostling, wrestle, outbidding, monopolizing, duked, bidding, outdoing, pursuing, finishing, gravitating, switching, besting, racing, clashing, attracting, duplicating, vaulting, chasing, placing, grabs, wooing, paired, emulating, coming, heats, losing, experimenting, dominating, taking, starting, rowing, epeeist, cannibalizing, snagging, defecting, challenge, hippology, earning, bunched, working, triumphed, sparring, represented, grouped, auditioned, succeeding, angling, fighting, alternates, negotiating, conquering, struggling, hosting, gunning, performing, courting, ranked, advantaging, converge, forerunning, uniting, striving, discriminating, teaming, balancing, getting, prepping, defending, muscling, honing, ganging, faring, psyching, tangling, meet, selected, accepting, boccie ball, sponsoring, concentrating, prospering, doing, coveted, noncompeting, capitalintensive, nonindustrial, diversified, incompatible, laborintensive, nondurable, nonfood, nonmanufacturing, conflicting, manufacturing, nonagricultural, rival, agricultural, exportoriented, multinational, noncapitalist, nondefense, nonstate, nontraditional

bidding contest, carbo loading, competition, contention, law of parsimony, occam's razor, ockham's razor, pace car, principle of parsimony, rivalry, underbid, war, warfare

competitive, competitory, rival