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tug of war (plural tugs of war or tug of wars)
- 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.
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)
- Hakka: 挷索仔 (pâng-sok-é)
- Mandarin: 拔河 (zh) (báhé)
- Min Nan: 拔索 (pu̍ih-soh), 搝大索 (zh-min-nan) (khiú-tōa-soh, giú-tōa-soh), 拔大索 (poe̍h-tōa-soh), 搝索仔 (khiú-soh-á, giú-soh-á), 擋索仔 / 挡索仔 (tòng-soh--á)
- Northern Min: 拔索 (bí-sŏ̤)
- Wu: 拉繩 / 拉绳 (1la-zen)
- 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, cinchada (es) f (River Plate), cinchada loca f (Uruguay), guerrita de soga f
- Swedish: dragkamp (sv) c
- Tagalog: hilahan
- Thai: ชักเย่อ (th) (chák-gà-yə̂ə)
- Turkish: halat çekme (tr)
- Vietnamese: kéo co (vi)
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