All duel synonyms
du·el
D d noun duel
- fight — a battle or combat.
- bout — If you have a bout of an illness or of an unpleasant feeling, you have it for a short period.
- shootout — a gunfight that must end in defeat for one side or the other, as between gunfighters in the Old West, criminal groups, or law-enforcement officers and criminals.
- joust — a combat in which two knights on horseback attempted to unhorse each other with blunted lances.
- challenge — A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination.
- fencing — 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.
- contest — A contest is a competition or game in which people try to win.
- battle — A battle is a violent fight between groups of people, especially one between military forces during a war.
- gunfight — a battle between two or more people or groups armed with guns, especially a confrontation between two gunfighters using revolvers in the frontier days of the American West.
- combat — Combat is fighting that takes place in a war.
- clash — When people clash, they fight, argue, or disagree with each other.
- single combat — combat between two persons.