tug of war

See also: tug-of-war

English

Alternative forms

• tug-of-war

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʌɡ əv ˌwɔː(r)/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

tug of war (plural tugs of war or tug of wars)

1. 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.
2. (idiomatic) A dispute between two parties, particularly an entrenched, back-and-forth dispute.

Translations

game

• Arabic: شَدّ اَلْحَبْل m (šadd al-ḥabl)
• Basque: sokatira
• Bulgarian: теглене на въже n (teglene na vǎže)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 扯大纜／扯大缆 (ce² daai⁶ laam⁶), 拔河 (bat⁶ ho⁴)

  Hokkien: 搝大索 (zh-min-nan) (khiú-tōa-soh, giú-tōa-soh)

  Mandarin: 拔河 (zh) (báhé)

• Danish: trækkamp c
• Dutch: getouwtrek (nl) n
• Faroese: togtogan f
• Finnish: köydenveto (fi)
• French: tir à la corde (fr) m
• Galician: tirapuxa f
• German: Tauziehen (de) n
• Hungarian: kötélhúzás (hu)
• Icelandic: reiptog n
• Indonesian: tarik tali (id), tarik tambang (id)
• Italian: tiro alla fune m
• Japanese: 綱引き (つなひき, tsuna-hiki)
• Jeju: 줄ᄃᆞᆼ길락 (juldawnggillak)
• Korean: 줄다리기 (juldarigi)
• Macedonian: натегање n (nateganje)
• Malay: tarik tali (ms)
• 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)
• Spanish: tira y afloja f
• Swedish: dragkamp (sv) c
• Tagalog: hilahan
• Thai: ชักเย่อ (th) (chák-gà-yə̂ə)
• Turkish: halat çekme (tr)
• Vietnamese: kéo co (vi)

dispute

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: togtogan f
• Finnish: köydenveto (fi)
• Galician: tirapuxa f
• German: Tauziehen (de) n, Gezerre (de) n
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: dragkamp (sv) c

See also

• dig in one's heels