Controversy; debate.
Struggle for superiority; combat.
A competition.
To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
To call into question; to oppose.
To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
To contend.
A dispute between two parties, particularly an entrenched, back-and-forth dispute.
A game or competition in which two teams pull or tug on opposite ends of a rope trying to force the other team over the line which initially marked the middle between the two teams.