noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chess championship/tournament (=a chess competition)
▪ Ray's taking part in a chess tournament.
a golf tournament/championship
▪ She decided to enter the golf tournament.
clinch a match/championship/victory etc
▪ A last-minute touchdown clinched the game.
ladies’ team/champion/championship etc
▪ the ladies’ darts team
League Championship
▪ the Rugby League Championship
the World Cup/Championships etc (=a competition involving people from many countries)
▪ He won the world title in 2001.
tournament/championship golf
▪ The course is suitable for modern world-class championship golf.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
indoor
▪ The Volvo Cup is the world indoor championship, but Del Mar's new stadium has been built without a roof.
▪ And the World Indoor Athletic championships kick-off on Friday.
▪ His club team Norton, near Stoke in the Midlands, won the world indoor championship contested by squads from 26 countries.
international
▪ A venture like that needs just as much planning, evaluation, preparation and practice as the international championship.
▪ Constantine still wears the International Hockey League championship ring from that season.
▪ He had never finished higher than fifth in an international championship.
junior
▪ Simon, a reserve for the world junior championship this month, won the junior men's event.
major
▪ Here, Brian Whittle, in his first major championships, awaited Kriss Akabussi.
▪ Most impressive are his 18 major championships, including six Masters titles.
▪ The tiny athlete believes her rare lapse in Tokyo was just a temporary blip in a career of major championship success.
▪ Opens have been won or not won by the bag-man's performance before and during the world's oldest major championship week.
▪ That was $ 6 million more than Woods, who won three of the four major golf championships last year.
▪ I was very happy to win the Olympics last time as it was the only major championship title I didn't have.
▪ That is to say, he has not won any more major championships.
national
▪ However, he shows great commitment to the crew's development from novices to contenders for the national championships.
▪ For winning back-to-back national championships, the Huskers were rather matter-of-fact about it all Tuesday night.
▪ The first nine in each of the four events will be selected for the national championships at Stoke on March 28.
▪ The glamour events are barely under way, but attendance at the national championships is already pleasing organizers.
▪ This is the selection event for the national senior athletics championships at Hull on August 1 and 2.
▪ That Spring and summer, matches were held leading to the first national championships.
▪ I was in a kind of athletic limbo, in between national championship class and true international standard.
▪ And after three years with him, the Wildcats remained without a national championship.
ncaa
▪ The 1990 NCAA championship with Stanford.
▪ Then, the best teams battle it out in the NCAA championships.
▪ A hot college hoop dreamer played by Kadeem Hardison dies just as his team is on the edge of an NCAA championship.
open
▪ He saw what Faldo had done, winning the Open championship and the Masters in the same year.
▪ Andrews, the Old Course, the Open championship, and the game itself.
▪ He was seventeen when he won the Open championship belt for the first time.
senior
▪ Today's senior championship contenders all started in the junior motocross events.
▪ Men's championship qualifying is March 10-11, senior championship qualifying is March 7.
▪ Last year they won the senior division championship for a club which won another five trophies.
▪ Ironically the same Jim Carty was Devenish manager when they captured their sixth senior championship in 1985.
▪ This is the selection event for the national senior athletics championships at Hull on August 1 and 2.
■ NOUN
conference
▪ They were too baffled to be disappointed, too befuddled to be concerned about the conference championship implications.
▪ League and conference championship games had always been played in the home city of one of the teams involved.
▪ Colorado went on to win the conference championship.
contender
▪ He may even make them championship contenders.
▪ People were talking about them being a championship contender.
county
▪ When Warwickshire unexpectedly won the county championship in 1911, the number of people coming to see its matches doubled.
▪ We both support Surrey and watched the team through that glorious period when Surrey won the county championship six years in succession.
▪ As for the representative level I would restructure the county championship.
▪ In the county championship, Northants have had an excellent day's batting against Surrey.
▪ Durham and Cumbria will stage their county championships on Saturday the recommended date instead.
▪ Read in studio Cricket now, and the new county championship season began today.
▪ But Cleveland and Northumberland switched from the recommended second Saturday in June and held their county championships last weekend.
football
▪ For the Super Bowl, memories of Aikman bring out all the frenzy of a state football championship.
▪ That year the underdog Dolphins beat the Washington Redskins for the football championship of the world.
▪ Under Vern Friedli, Amphi has won 16 of the last 21 Class 5A-South football championships.
game
▪ Sadberge met their rivals, Haughton-le-Skerne, near Darlington, in Haughton church hall yesterday for a championship game.
▪ Neither was it cited by Sports Illustrated, which devoted five pages to the championship game.
▪ It was the Pioneers' fourth trip to the championship game in seven years, all coming during even-numbered years.
▪ League and conference championship games had always been played in the home city of one of the teams involved.
▪ The so-called best two teams in the country will meet in a championship game, which will be alternated among four bowls.
▪ Except for every fourth year when the Rose Bowl will host the national championship game, regardless of which teams are playing.
▪ That summer, playing in a championship game in Santa Barbara, B dislocated her finger.
▪ It has had six championship games this decade, and UMass has won the last four.
leader
▪ McCrae is now only seven points behind world championship leader Tommi Makkinen.
▪ It forced the championship leaders to bowl and field with a slippery ball.
league
▪ Constantine still wears the International Hockey League championship ring from that season.
▪ Mr ferguson has won an astonishing one league championship in only his seven years at Old Trafford.
▪ He won four league championships as a manager.
▪ That means the Bangor club have lifted a double-double in league championship and cup competition this season.
▪ Amongst adult clubs, there was some success as well when Manchester Deaf F.C. won their local hearing league championship.
match
▪ However, the field will again be widened and seating capacity adjusted to 54, 000 for the championship match.
▪ In those five seasons of triumph, 86 of their 140 championship matches were won and only 20 lost.
▪ Declan Bonner was not in the Donegal line-up - he was far too busy running the show in a club championship match.
▪ Meanwhile, Essex and Lancashire were again frustrated by the Manchester weather on the final day of their championship match.
▪ Enter the four-day county championship match, which this season becomes the norm.
race
▪ The championship race is wide open.
▪ He was well ahead in the championship race.
▪ After Pescara, it is the second longest circuit to be used for a Formula One championship race.
▪ They've got stronger since then and have set the pace in the championship race this season.
▪ Steve Kerton from Gloucestershire leads the powerboat championship race by just one point.
▪ At least Linfield are still above us in the championship race so you can keep on writing about them every day.
▪ The following season, Nijinsky took the Gladness Stakes on his reappearance and then won five successive championship races.
▪ Other than in large championship races, windsurfers tend to use fairly short beats so their influence is decreased.
season
▪ But it will be desperately close as two exceptionally committed sides bid to keep their championship season alive.
▪ Barnett has no illusions about a championship season, or even a guaranteed postseason berth.
▪ Read in studio Cricket now, and the new county championship season began today.
▪ Although in non-stop pain, he has put off the operation until the Formula One championship season is over.
series
▪ They lost in the championship series, 4-3 to the Houston Rockets.
▪ All the long seasons ending with championship series, all the tough games, it takes a toll.
state
▪ He was a well-known high school star, winning a state championship.
▪ As a junior, she led her team to the state championships.
▪ She then became a star basketball player in high school, taking her team to the state championship.
▪ Next Saturday, the state championship for casting accuracy will be held, with two age groups, 7-10 and 11-14.
▪ If that were the case, then wouldn't the girls athletics program be overburdened with athletic hopefuls dreaming of state championships?
team
▪ Hopefully, mine will turn out like hers, although just playing on another championship team and contributing would be enough.
▪ She competed on five consecutive world championship teams, a previously unheard-of feat.
▪ I want to play on a championship team, at least have a chance to get to the Finals.
▪ He has a toughness and maturity that became the personality of Michigan State's national championship team.
title
▪ I was very happy to win the Olympics last time as it was the only major championship title I didn't have.
world
▪ It also turned out to be Lynch's last world championship fight.
▪ Former Boro rider Paul Bentley, who won the recent World championship qualifying round on his old track, is a reserve.
▪ This is the fourth annual world championships, following events in Berlin, London and Toronto.
▪ Seems a funny place for a World championship?
▪ McCrae is now only seven points behind world championship leader Tommi Makkinen.
▪ Well, it ain't easy to win a world championship you know.
▪ Ferrari profited from these ground-effects catastrophes with a relatively conventional car, the 312T4 that gave Jody Scheckter the 1979 world championship.
■ VERB
clinch
▪ All of which means that Shorts require just three points from their final match of the season to clinch the championship.
▪ A win tonight will clinch the Pac-10 championship for Stanford, now ranked number five in the nation.
hold
▪ Yet Fuji held the world championship.
▪ But Cleveland and Northumberland switched from the recommended second Saturday in June and held their county championships last weekend.
▪ The majestic indoor arena holds its premier four-day championship show from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 September.
lead
▪ I haven't led the championship this year so I haven't had to think about defending a lead.
▪ Steve Kerton from Gloucestershire leads the powerboat championship race by just one point.
▪ So Lauda won and for the first time he led the championship: 48 to 45.5 for Prost.
lose
▪ And if it meant that Senna were to lose the championship, then the legal ramifications would be far-reaching.
▪ They lost in the championship series, 4-3 to the Houston Rockets.
play
▪ Hopefully, mine will turn out like hers, although just playing on another championship team and contributing would be enough.
▪ I want to play on a championship team, at least have a chance to get to the Finals.
▪ That summer, playing in a championship game in Santa Barbara, B dislocated her finger.
▪ Goodrich is one of the few athletes in sports history to have played on championship teams at every level.
▪ I was playing in the championship, but I felt we were in different tournaments altogether.
win
▪ Bigfoot is the reigning king, a truck that has won more races and championships than any other.
▪ Honda cars had won several championships.
▪ After adding the Ravensworth Bowl to the Seaton Salver he won prior to his country championship victory.
▪ Imagine coming in and the only way you can back it up is by winning a championship.
▪ He won the national championship in one season and finished fairly high in another season.
▪ They play really smart ball and they often win championships, despite having a lineup which is somewhat less than imposing.
▪ This style has been good enough to win two championships.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At 17, he was the youngest player to win the Men's Tennis Championship.
▪ Can she win the championship again this year?
▪ Gutierrez said he has a plan he hopes will carry him through to his first world championship.
▪ Last year they won the national college basketball championship.
▪ The sixth game of the World Chess Championship will be broadcast tonight on Channel 6.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Georgetown was the victim of an inspired underdog when the Hoyas met Big East rival Villanova in the 1985 championship.
▪ I haven't led the championship this year so I haven't had to think about defending a lead.
▪ It is a championship for high-performance mass-produced cars which are sold in the United States.
▪ Manchester United are determined that if they win their first championship for 25 years the celebrations will be in front of their own supporters.
▪ The championships have the full backing of Durham County Cricket Club.
▪ The International Squash Rackets Federation will introduce random drug testing at next year's world championships.
▪ The Raiders have been on the decline since their last Super Bowl championship, 13 years ago.
▪ They both say the championships are a good idea.