an athletic contest between two teams who haul at the opposite ends of a rope, each trying to drag the other over a line marked between them, a contest between two teams, with an agreed number of participants (most often male) on each side, which pull against each other from the end of a thick rope in a trial of strength

an athletic contest between two teams who haul at the opposite ends of a rope, each trying to drag the other over a line marked between them, a contest between two teams, with an agreed number of participants (most often male) on each side, which pull against each other from the end of a thick rope in a trial of strength