Tug-of-war

"Mr Chairman, what needs moving next, again?" "Scoreboard, giant ball and the tug-of-war rope."

Two men had their arms severed in Taiwan after a tug-of-war accident.

Scientists at the U.S. space agency, NASA, say they’ve been able to observe, for the first time from lunar orbit, a “bulge” in the moon caused by the “gravitational tug-of-war with Earth.”

There's an ideal tug-of-war between us.

This budget meeting turned into a tug-of-war.

Participants in the tug-of-war strain with all their might.

2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text Heads fling blood and mucus into the air; viscera drip from vulture bills; two birds play tug-of-war with a ten-foot rope of intestine coated in dirt and feces.