Definitions

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  • noun A medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances.
  • noun Any activity in which two people spar with each other verbally.
  • verb Present participle of joust.

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Examples

  • They pal around like modern boys, playing tennis, indulging in jousting matches, fulfilling the boys-will-be-boys mantra.

    Amrie’s Take on TV: THE TUDORS | the TV addict 2007

  • But the promised jousting is seemingly not to be in Dunk's future when he is hard pressed to find a sponsor for the tournament.

    REVIEW: The Hedge Knight by George R.R. Martin 2007

  • There were some outdoor horse-riding sequences with stuntmen in jousting armor.

    Archive 2003-10-05 Michael Evans 2003

  • There were some outdoor horse-riding sequences with stuntmen in jousting armor.

    Archive 2003-10-01 Michael Evans 2003

  • There were some outdoor horse-riding sequences with stuntmen in jousting armor.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2003

  • NGT Knights during a joust at the Longs Peak Scottish Highland Festival in Colorado In the world of extreme sports, there may be nothing that can top full-contact jousting, which is the subject of Nat Geo's "Knights of Mayhem."

    Serious Jest, Sharp Jabs Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

  • The jousting is the real thing and is worth seeing at least once.

    Ye olde Utah Renaissance Festival 2010

  • I'm willing to bet that the jousting was the most popular (but they can't measure the free games) so I'm confident we were running either 2 of the top 3 games at the SBF or we were running the top two hands down.

    waterdiluted Diary Entry waterdiluted 2006

  • The genesis of the jousting was the stormy denouement of the 2006 quarterfinal, when the

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • This race is open enough, and the immigration issue is powerful enough, I think you will see some second-tier candidates trying to break through on immigration, and McCain-Romney kind of jousting a bit.

    CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2007 2007

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  • State sport of Maryland.

    August 25, 2008