Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
- keep up
- maintain a required pace or level
- crossruff
- trump alternately in two hands
- count out
- declare the loser
- fistfight
- fight with the fists
- track down
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- rabbit
- hunt rabbits
- swallow
- engulf and destroy
- bear down
- exert full strength
- shuttlecock
- send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock
- promote
- change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent
- jump
- make a sudden physical attack on
- serve
- put the ball into play
- show
- finish third or better in a horse or dog race
- fish
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
- cover
- protect or defend (a position in a game)
- shame
- surpass or beat by a wide margin
- lurch
- defeat by a lurch
- promote
- be changed for a superior chess or checker piece
- play
- put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game
- capitulate
- surrender under agreed conditions
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