Synonyms of head-to-head

head-to-head

adverb

ˈhed-tə-ˈhed 

as in toe-to-toe

in direct confrontation or competition

it's fitting that the two best teams during the regular season will go head-to-head for the championship

Synonyms & Similar Words

• toe-to-toe
• one-on-one
• face-to-face
• head-on
• eyeball-to-eyeball
• mano a mano

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of head-to-head

Two of the defending champions — Marist and Jefferson — will go head-to-head in Class 5A this year after Jefferson moved up one level during the GHSA’s most recent reclassification. — Chip Saye, AJC.com, 30 July 2026

Yet few studies have pitted them against each other — and this summer brought a high-profile head-to-head. — Katie Palmer, STAT, 29 July 2026

One of the last public polls before the primary showed Raman narrowly beating Bass in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup, although in that scenario well over a third of voters remained undecided or uncommitted. — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026

Questions will include player head-to-head performance and game-winner picks and prizes will be awarded to the top performers in individual contests and monthly leaderboards. — David Shepardson, USA Today, 29 July 2026

Readers will be asked to pick one cat in each head-to-head matchup. — Gabriela Velasquez, Des Moines Register, 28 July 2026

This was the first of this season’s two head-to-head meetings between the clubs. — Staff Report, Mercury News, 25 July 2026

The leagues are eight weeks, with different formats like head-to-head match play or the tag-team alternate shot each week. — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2026

But the four candidates will have two more opportunities to go head-to-head in debates on July 28 and 29. — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2026