competing

adjective

com·​pet·​ing kəm-ˈpē-tiŋ 

: in a state of rivalry or competition (as for position, profit, or a prize)

the competing teams/athletes

researched competing companies/products

They received several competing offers/bids.

their competing claims to the territory

She had many competing demands on her time.

… money is needed for social programs, health care, the environment and myriad other competing interests.

—Gloria Galloway

Using themselves, and 30 other pairs of identical twins as subjects, the two set out to test competing theories …

—Alison Rowat

Examples of competing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

When competing schools want to obtain the services of elite athletes but are blocked by NCAA eligibility limits, as has been the case, that’s a potential antitrust problem. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 June 2026

From the non-competing tier, there’s a few teams who absolutely spent in the 2026 draft, no shade here. — Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026

Establishing an entirely new and competing agency is merely the pursuit of a bureaucratic gravy train, and providing it with incentives to abuse power in order to boost its own coffers is an invitation to tyranny. — Adam Summers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026

Read on to find out the curious, competing and sometimes contradictory history of April Fools' Day. — Tom Fish, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1660, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for competing

• accreting
• completing
• concreting
• defeating
• deleting
• depleting
• entreating
• preheating
• reheating
• repeating
• retreating
• beating