Risk vs. Challenge — What's the Difference?

In simple terms, risk is the possibility of something bad happening. Risk involves uncertainty about the effects/implications of an activity with respect to something that humans value (such as health, well-being, wealth, property or the environment), often focusing on negative, undesirable consequences.

A call to someone to participate in a competitive situation or fight to decide who is superior in terms of ability or strength

The possibility of suffering harm or loss; danger.

A call to prove or justify something

A factor, thing, element, or course involving uncertain danger; a hazard

Exposure of the immune system to pathogenic organisms or antigens

The danger or probability of loss to an insurer.

Dispute the truth or validity of

The amount that an insurance company stands to lose.

Invite (someone) to engage in a contest

The variability of returns from an investment.

Expose (the immune system) to pathogenic organisms or antigens.

The chance of nonpayment of a debt.

A call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition

One considered with respect to the possibility of loss

An act or statement of defiance; a call to confrontation

To expose to a chance of loss or damage; hazard.

A demand for explanation or justification; a calling into question

To incur the risk of

A sentry's call to an unknown party for proper identification.

(uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.

A test of one's abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking

(uncountable) The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.

A claim that a vote is invalid or that a voter is unqualified.

The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.

A formal objection to the inclusion of a prospective juror in a jury.

(countable) A possible adverse event or outcome.

A legal case testing the validity of an action taken, particularly by the government.

(insurance) A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy.

(Immunology) The induction or evaluation of an immune response in an organism by administration of a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.

(countable) A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect).

To call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition

A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card).

To invite with defiance; dare

(finance) A financial product (typically an investment).

To confront or struggle with (something) as a test of one's abilities

(insurance) An entity insured by an insurer.

To take exception to; call into question; dispute

(transitive) To incur risk of (something).

To order to halt and be identified, as by a sentry.

(transitive) To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing.

To take formal objection to (a prospective juror).

(transitive) To incur risk as a result of (doing something).

To bring a legal case testing the validity of an action, particularly by the government.

Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.

To question the qualifications of (a voter) or the validity of (a vote).

Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.

To have due claim to; call for

To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.

To summon to action, effort, or use; stimulate

To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.

(Immunology) To induce or evaluate an immune response in (an organism) by administering a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.

A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune;

To make or give voice to a challenge.

A venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury;

To begin barking upon picking up the scent. Used of hunting dogs.

The probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred

A confrontation; a dare.

The probability of being exposed to an infectious agent

An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.

Expose to a chance of loss or damage;

A bid to overcome something.

Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;

(sports) An attempt to take possession; a tackle.

A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.

The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.

An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.

A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.

(legal) A procedure or action.

A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).

The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.

The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.

(US) An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.

(hunting) The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.

(transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.

(transitive) To dare (someone).

(transitive) To dispute (something).

To call something into question or dispute.

To make a formal objection to a juror.

(transitive) To be difficult or challenging for.

To claim as due; to demand as a right.

To censure; to blame.

To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).

To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.

To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.

An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.

The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.

A claim or demand.

The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.

An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.

An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.

To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.

To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.

To claim as due; to demand as a right.

To censure; to blame.

To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"

To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.

To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.

To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.

To assert a right; to claim a place.

A demanding or stimulating situation;

A call to engage in a contest or fight

Questioning a statement and demanding an explanation;

A formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror

A demand by a sentry for a password or identification

Take exception to;

Issue a challenge to;

Ask for identification;

Raise a formal objection in a court of law