tourney
Other forms: tourneys; tourneying; tourneyed
A tourney is a tournament: a sporting event that consists of a series of games that result in a champion.
Tourney is an informal word for a tournament. A tourney is a series of games with a bunch of different teams or individuals. Tennis events like Wimbledon are tourneys. The playoffs for the NBA, NFL, and NHL are tourneys. In a tourney, you have to beat more than one team to become the champion or overall winner, and there are different rounds in which you face different opponents. A single sporting event — like a boxing match — is not a tourney.
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a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winnersynonyms: tournamenttypes:World Cupa soccer tournament held every four years between national soccer teams to determine a world championelimination tournamenta tournament in which losers are eliminated in successive roundsopena tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may playround robina tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestanttype of:
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In this medieval poem, originally composed in Middle English in the 14th century, a mysterious green knight issues a challenge to the knights of King Arthur's court. Learn these words from the translation by J.R.R. Tolkien.
In the first book of the Ranger's Apprentice series, Will is chosen to train as a Ranger and prepare for battle with the evil Morgarath.