Fight vs. Spar — What's the Difference?

Take part in a violent struggle involving the exchange of physical blows or the use of weapons

A thick, strong pole such as is used for a mast or yard on a ship.

Struggle to overcome, eliminate, or prevent

A period or bout of sparring.

A violent confrontation or struggle

A close friend

To attempt to harm or gain power over an adversary by blows or with weapons.

A crystalline, easily cleavable, translucent or transparent mineral.

(Sports) To engage in a boxing match or other similar contest.

Make the motions of boxing without landing heavy blows, as a form of training

To engage in a quarrel; argue

(of a gamecock) fight with the feet or spurs.

To strive vigorously and resolutely, as in trying to overcome something; contend

(Nautical) A wooden or metal pole, such as a mast, boom, yard, or bowsprit, used to support sails and rigging.

To contend with or oppose with violence or in battle.

A usually metal pole used as part of a crane or derrick.

To wage or carry on (a battle).

A main structural member in an airplane wing or a tail assembly that runs from tip to tip or from root to tip.

To contend for, as by combat

A motion of attack or defense in boxing.

(Sports) To take part in a boxing match or other similar contest with (an opponent).

A sparring match.

To participate in (a boxing match or other similar contest).

A nonmetallic, readily cleavable, translucent or transparent light-colored mineral with a shiny luster, such as feldspar.

To cause (a boxer or other contestant) to fight in a match.

A member of the women's reserve of the US Coast Guard, disbanded as a separate unit in 1946.

To contend with or struggle against

To supply with spars.

To try to prevent the development or success of

(Obsolete) To fasten with a bolt.

To try to extinguish (an uncontrolled fire).

To fight with an opponent in a short bout or practice session, as in boxing or the martial arts.

To make (one's way) by struggle or striving

To make boxing or fighting motions without hitting one's opponent.

A confrontation between opposing groups in which each attempts to harm or gain power over the other, as with bodily force or weapons.

To bandy words about in argument; dispute.

A physical conflict between two or more individuals.

To fight by striking with the feet and spurs. Used of gamecocks.

A boxing match.

A rafter of a roof.

A contest in kickboxing, any of the mixed martial arts, or a similar sport.

A thick pole or piece of wood.

A quarrel or conflict

(obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.

A struggle to achieve an objective

(nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.

The power or inclination to fight; pugnacity

(aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.

(intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.

A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.

(reciprocal) To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc.

(MLE) A friend, a mate, a pal.

(intransitive) To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.

(mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.

(transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).

(mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.

(transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.

To bolt, bar.

(transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.

(transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.

To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.

To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.

(intransitive) Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize.

To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.

An occasion of fighting.

To contest in words; to wrangle.

(archaic) A battle between opposing armies.

An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein.

A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.

A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.

(sports) A boxing or martial arts match.

Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; - still applied locally to rafters.

A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.

The bar of a gate or door.

(uncountable) The will or ability to fight.

A contest at sparring or boxing.

(obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships; an arming.

A movement of offense or defense in boxing.

To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; - followed by with or against.

To bolt; to bar.

To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.

To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.

To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause.

To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.

To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.

To use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box.

To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.

To contest in words; to wrangle.

A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.

Any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable

A struggle or contest of any kind.

A stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging

Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him.

Making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer

A screen for the combatants in ships.

Furnish with spars

The act of fighting; any contest or struggle;

Fight with spurs;

An intense verbal dispute;

Box lightly

A boxing match;

Fight verbally;

A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;

An aggressive willingness to compete;

Be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight;

Fight against or resist strongly;

Make a strenuous or labored effort;

Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for;