All contestant synonyms

noun contestant

• competitor — A company's competitors are companies who are trying to sell similar goods or services to the same people.
• participant — a person or group that participates; partaker.
• candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
• contender — A contender is someone who takes part in a competition.
• challenger — A challenger is someone who competes with you for a position or title that you already have, for example being a sports champion or a political leader.
• aspirant — Someone who is an aspirant to political power or to an important job has a strong desire to achieve it.
• warrior — a person engaged or experienced in warfare; soldier.
• favorite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
• member — a person, animal, plant, group, etc., that is part of a society, party, community, taxon, or other body.
• player — Gary, born 1935, South African golfer.
• rival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
• combatant — A combatant is a person, group, or country that takes part in the fighting in a war.
• hopeful — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
• adversary — Your adversary is someone you are competing with, or arguing or fighting against.
• antagonist — Your antagonist is your opponent or enemy.
• scrapper — a fighter or aggressive competitor, especially one always ready or eager for a fight, argument, or contest: the best lightweight scrapper in boxing; a rugged political scrapper.
• battler — a hostile encounter or engagement between opposing military forces: the battle of Waterloo.
• disputant — a person who disputes; debater.
• contester — a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize.
• participator — 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.
• opponent — a person who is on an opposing side in a game, contest, controversy, or the like; adversary.
• favourite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
• dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.