ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

gladiatorship † , gymnastics; jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti † , sumo; athletics, athletic sports;
games of skill &c 840.
shindy † ; fracas &c (discord) 713; clash of arms; tussle, scuffle, broil, fray; affray,
affrayment † ; velitation † ; colluctation † , luctation † ; brabble † , brigue † , scramble, melee,
scrimmage, stramash † , bushfighting † .
free fight, stand up fight, hand to hand, running fight.
conflict, skirmish; rencounter † , encounter; rencontre † , collision, affair, brush, fight;
battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting [Mediev.];
tournay † , list; pitched battle.
death struggle, struggle for life or death, life or death struggle, Armageddon † .
hard knocks, sharp contest, tug of war.
naval engagement, naumachia † , sea fight.
duel, duello [It]; single combat, monomachy † , satisfaction, passage d'armes [Fr.],
passage of arms, affair of honor; triangular duel; hostile meeting, digladiation † ; deeds of
arms, feats of arms; appeal to arms &c (warfare) 722.
pugnacity; combativeness &c adj.; bone of contention &c 713.
V. contend; contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle; spar, square; exchange blows,
exchange fisticuffs; fib † , justle † , tussle, tilt, box, stave, fence; skirmish; pickeer † ; fight &c
(war) 722; wrangle &c (quarrel) 713.
contend with &c, grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with, bandy with, try
conclusions with, have a brush &c n.. with, tilt with; encounter, fall foul of, pitch into,
clapperclaw † , run a tilt at; oppose &c 708; reluct.
join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the scratch, exchange
shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand; take up the cudgels, take up the glove, take up
the gauntlet; enter the lists; couch one's lance; give satisfaction; appeal to arms; &c
(warfare) 722.
lay about one; break the peace.
compete with, cope with, vie with, race with; outvie † , emulate, rival; run a race;
contend for &c, stipulate for, stickle for; insist upon, make a point of.
Adj. contending &c v.; together by the ears, at loggerheads.
at war.
at issue.
competitive, rival; belligerent; contentious, combative, bellicose, unpeaceful † ; warlike
&c 722; quarrelsome &c 901; pugnacious; pugilistic, gladiatorial; palestric † , palestrical † .
Phr. a verbis ad verbera [Lat.]; a word and a blow; a very pretty quarrel as it stands
[Sheridan]; commune periculum concordiam parit [Lat.]; lis litem generat [Lat.].
721. Peace -- N. peace; amity &c (friendship) 888; harmony &c (concord) 714;
tranquility, calm &c (quiescence) 265; truce, peace treaty, accord &c (pacification) 723;
peace pipe, pipe of peace, calumet of peace.
piping time of peace, quiet life; neutrality.
[symbol of peace] dove of peace, white dove.
[person who favors peace] dove.
pax Romana [Lat.]; Pax Americana [Lat.].
V. be at peace; keep the peace &c (concord) 714.
make peace &c 723.