tug of war

See also: tug-of-war

English

Noun

tug of war (plural tugs of war)

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.
(idiomatic) a dispute between two parties, particularly an entrenched, back-and-forth dispute.

Translations

game

Arabic: شَدّ اَلْحَبْل‎‎ m (šadd al-ḥabl)
Basque: sokatira
Chinese:
Mandarin: 拔河 (zh) (báhé)
Dutch: getouwtrek n
Faroese: togtogan f
Finnish: köydenveto (fi)
French: tir à la corde m
German: Tauziehen n
Hungarian: kötélhúzás (hu)
Italian: tiro alla fune m
Japanese: 綱引き (つなひき, tsuna-hiki)

Macedonian: натегање n (natéganje)
Maori: tauronarona, taukumekume
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dragkamp m

Nynorsk: dragkamp m
Polish: przeciąganie liny n
Portuguese: cabo de guerra m
Russian: перетя́гивание кана́та (ru) n (peretjágivanije kanáta)
Swedish: dragkamp (sv) c
Tagalog: hilahan
Vietnamese: kéo co (vi)

dispute

Faroese: togtogan f
Finnish: köydenveto (fi)

German: Tauziehen n, Gezerre (de) n

See also

dig in one's heels

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