challenge to

challenge (someone) to (something)

To dare or provoke one to participate in something, such as a competition. I ushered Bob out the door as soon as that obnoxious guy challenged him to a fight. Jenna is really good at basketball, so don't challenge her to a game unless you're OK with losing!

challenge someone to something

to dare someone to do something; to invite someone to compete at something. I challenge you to a round of golf. Jerry challenged us to a debate of the issues.

See also: challenge

References in classic literature ?

We hear you, Lord of the Axe," answered one of the councillors, "but first, O Unconquered, you must on this day of the year, according to ancient custom, give public challenge to any man to fight you for the Groan-Maker and for your place as chief of the People of the Axe.

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But apart from that, a challenge to fight would be an act hardly honest on my side.

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The challenge to departments at the federal level was broader and more ambitious.

Hour of decision: Supreme Court will decide whether taxpayers can challenge President Bush's 'faith-based' crusade

Only one person from the team is required to complete a trick or challenge to earn the points (unless the challenge specifically says "everyone.

Other challenges & rules

According to the report, the growing challenge to property management is to consistently demonstrate the worth of the value-added services provided to clients or risk having a competitor step in and offer the same service at a lower price or present a higher value proposition.

IREM reports on key challenges facing the industry

If you use LIDB to submit a price challenge, you need to periodically return to LIDB's Price Challenge to get the source of supply response to your challenge.

Challenge odd prices

Early on a cold, rainy morning, four veteran law enforcement officers faced a serious challenge to their physical and mental abilities as they waited to hear the clang of a bell.

Physical fitness in law enforcement: follow the Yellow Brick Road

The severe challenging behaviors exhibited by children with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) pose a unique challenge to the educational community (Nelson, 1996).

A strategy to reduce the challenging behaviors of children with emotional and behavioral disorders

I know it's time to take Healthy Kids Challenge to camp

Kids camping takes the challenge!: Use healthy messages to make the camp experience AWE-some!

When one also considers the limitless coffers of the Roman Catholic Church and the American Medical Association's growing alarm at this threat to the power and control of doctors, it seems to me a foregone conclusion that every possible avenue of legal challenge to physician aid in dying will be pursued.

Physician aid in dying: within some of our lifetimes?

The uncertain, unpredictable world we're facing will motivate many of us to accept the challenge to be better team players.

Footprints: the human dimension

She considers her profession's greatest challenge to be building space that impresses the right image within the parameters of budget, schedule and function.

The Top 100 Women in Real Estate

To be successful, a challenge to the admissibility of surreptitiously recorded conversations based on the fifth amendment self-incrimination clause would have to establish that the conversations in question were the product of unlawful custodial interrogation.