Any final competition to determine a championship

Usage examples of playoff.

It was an important game to both teams, as they fought for a playoff berth, and a tense series of downs.

Jags can do now is tie us and we have a playoff to move into the pennant series.

It now looked like a straight playoff between Christopher Meadowbrook and Spunk Davis, with maybe Nub Forkner as an outside possibility.

The playoff went back and forth, one shot to the next, one hole to the next.

Willie looked out of it when he hooked his tee shot badly on the twentieth hole, but Jimmy three-putted from the edge, so the playoff continued.

Jimmy looked out of it at the twenty-second hole, but hit a short bunker shot near the hole to keep the playoff going.

Though there were still three and a half months left in the official season before Playoffs began, buzz was strong that the Blades were going to repeat and win the Cup.

Lou had warned Janna that if she thought she was busy now, just wait until the Playoffs began.

The other thing is, you really gotta push him into doing some stuff, especially with the Playoffs coming up.

Shaving a few minutes off my ice time from here until the Playoffs is acceptable.

She knew he was preoccupied with the upcoming Playoffs, so she had given him a wide berth.

Does that mean you planned on dumping me all along when the Playoffs rolled around?

Gallagher, all you have to do is get through the next two rounds of Playoffs and the season is done.

Cup Playoffs began, she had taken advantage of the beautiful June weather to pay this weekend visit to her parents.

What follows, then, is a random commentary by some pro football players just a few games away from the Super Bowl, watching a film of a game between two teams -- one of which they will have to beat on Sunday, to make the playoffs, and another they might have to beat in the Super Bowl itself.