What you describe correspond to what Caillois called "agon," or directly competitive games. From Wordnik.com. [SonyBay] Reference
It was an agon, he said, a contest, win or lose all. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
NGUYEN: You know it is agon -- just truly agonizing to watch. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2007] Reference
‘I agon-ise, I agon-ise!’ yelled her nephew in the next room. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference
Girls now seem to have more poise, daily agon, and purchasing power. From Wordnik.com. [Teen Engines: Riding with the Kid Culture] Reference
The second time I returned to the main Forums List page, it happened agon. From Wordnik.com. [Is it something I did?] Reference
Thane yaars agon we have used yoors up since when we have fused now orther. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
As the breach between the pair widens, another agon is played out, that of food. From Wordnik.com. [Justice to J.D. Salinger] Reference
“Who is to be the final judge of the agon then?” asked a serious, older man in the fifth row. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Play as such is not neglected but passes into the fierce competition of the agon to make a Roman holiday. From Wordnik.com. [ART AND PLAY] Reference
That was hours agon, and my outrage has since moved to other example of misogynistic reproductive tyranny. From Wordnik.com. [“Unauthorized Reproduction”] Reference
An aftur Percy, den it bees MAI tern, cos ai nawt afoardid Dr. TinyTeefs sins mai lasst jawb wif bennee fits foar yeers agon. From Wordnik.com. [Kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
He points as well to the fact that the particular form a game takes is not a perfect or direct reflection of agon, alea, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Game as Cultural Form, Play as Disposition] Reference
The ancient Greeks, moreover, were highly competitive and believed strongly in the concept of agon, or "competition," "contest.". From Wordnik.com. [Alex Pattakos: Original Meaning of the Olympic Games] Reference
Epeide de tropon agon kai karpophoria to prokeimenon, kai prosdokia ouranon to prosdokomenon, me glupta zeteistho all 'ho tropos. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
Public debate and political competition (agon was the Greek word, which gives us our "agony") were the norm in democratic Athens. From Wordnik.com. [Socrates ? a man for our times] Reference
For me "protagonist" and "antagonist" are very flexible terms, posting simply an agon, a point of view in that agon and a flip-side. From Wordnik.com. [A Theory of Modes and Modalities] Reference
I gave you the trouble of some Lines a few days agon. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Robert Carter to Thomas Evans, June 2, 1721] Reference
Tis but a few days agon I writ to You by the Content Capt. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Robert Carter to John Pemberton, June 2, 1721] Reference
Which Socrates and Chaerephon In vain essayed so long agon. From Wordnik.com. [The Symposium] Reference
Sir Richard, his ion, is faid to have c iiimindcd the D. agon in the. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia navalis; or, Impartial memoirs of the lives and characters of officers of the navy of Great Britain, from the year 1660 to the present time; drawn from the most authentic sources, and disposed in a chronological arrangement] Reference
Tis but a few days agon Since I have gott the Deeds and paprs. from Collo. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Robert Carter to Micajah Perry Sr. and Jr., January 17,1721] Reference
James Legge, D.D. The D.agon, Image and D.mon, or the three Religions of China. From Wordnik.com. [Religions of Ancient China] Reference
We went out for about 4 days, but we've liked each other since a long time agon. From Wordnik.com. [[Help] Most Recent Posts] Reference
The 9/11 Report subjected to Kenneth Burke's cluster-agon method of rhetorical criticism?. From Wordnik.com. [The Comics Journal] Reference
My speeches are no lawe, nor scarce good judgment, for the warrs were unknowen to me 22 yeres agon. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592] Reference
Last, the fateful C Minor Sonata, Op. 111, to which Rose applies a chromatic canvas, an agon in chiaroscuro. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
Moreover, "Life is an agon" is thoroughly consonant with both ancient Greek history and culture (but not Roman). From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
But a proper political agon requires some ground rules: first and foremost, a commitment not to Godwin to the balls. From Wordnik.com. [Acephalous] Reference
Advantageous Sale, By the Mary who left us about a fortnight agon I writ to you at large and Duplicated by the Providence. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Robert Carter to Robert Cary, June 1, 1727] Reference
What Trilling brings to the table, however, is the emphasis he places on an emerging, new institutional context for the agon. From Wordnik.com. [The Valve] Reference
All things in the universe take part in the dynamic of agon.”. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
N. - ignorance; especially ignorance shared by the wholehuman race agon. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
“I don’t understand the agon, Odysseus,” said a young woman in the third row. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
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