All compete synonyms

verb compete

• contend — If you have to contend with a problem or difficulty, you have to deal with it or overcome it.
• play — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• wrestle — to engage in wrestling.
• clash — When people clash, they fight, argue, or disagree with each other.
• contest — A contest is a competition or game in which people try to win.
• challenge — A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination.
• vie — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
• face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
• try — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
• spar — (during World War II) a woman enlisted in the women's reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard (disbanded in 1946).
• battle — A battle is a violent fight between groups of people, especially one between military forces during a war.
• fight — a battle or combat.
• bandy — If you bandy words with someone, you argue with them.
• attempt — If you make an attempt to do something, you try to do it, often without success.
• fence — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
• rival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
• bid — A bid for something or a bid to do something is an attempt to obtain it or do it.
• collide — If two or more moving people or objects collide, they crash into one another. If a moving person or object collides with a person or object that is not moving, they crash into them.
• grapple — to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
• joust — a combat in which two knights on horseback attempted to unhorse each other with blunted lances.
• oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
• struggle — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
• tilt — to furnish with a tilt.
• tussle — to struggle or fight roughly or vigorously; wrestle; scuffle.
• strive — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
• go for — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• lock horns — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
• take on — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• go after — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• go for broke — a simple past tense of break.
• jockey for position — If someone is jockeying for position, they are using whatever methods they can in order to get into a better position than their rivals.
• take part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
• participate — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
• compare — When you compare things, you consider them and discover the differences or similarities between them.
• measure up — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
• match — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
• parallel — parallel processing