WordNet
n. any long and arduous undertaking [syn: marathon]
Usage examples of "endurance contest".
The tests are to come off this fall, on a new and specially built track on Long Island, and it's to be an endurance contest for twenty-four hours, or a race for distance, they haven't yet decided.
But if, as we suspect, he is at an isolated station, where no one checks on him, it may become an endurance contest.
For a young woman who was used to cossetting, travel by stage was an endurance contest she couldn’.
School alone could become an endurance contest, in the clammy piety that's settled on this country.
School alone could become an endurance contest, in the clammy piety that’.
Humfrey wanted something that the Demon X(A/N)th didn't want to give, so they were locked in this endurance contest instead.
In a sense, this is an endurance contest in which the enemy is finally broken through exhaustion.
It was an endurance contest, he recognized, with all the advantages on her side.
ACTS was designed to squeeze all of the functions of Camp Mackenzie, Recon School, and Raider School, plus the Cadre's own highly specialized requirements, into a three-month endurance contest guaranteed to make all of those other training experiences positively soporific by comparison.