joust

At the L.A. fair, there are generally three joust performances per day: the Deptford tournament joust, the queen’s joust and the “joust to the death.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

Recently, one pair of cosmic dancers has turned astronomer’s heads by performing a very dangerous routine — which they’ve nicknamed the cosmic joust!

From Space Scoop ● May 21, 2025

Pimblett responded by calling Ferguson a "sausage", before the pair continued to verbally joust.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023

Competitors were expected to joust one another on a thin, elevated platform that fell out underneath them.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2023

“I rode to the water of Mortoise, where a black knight came to joust with me. He knocked me down as well.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Perhaps they’ll even find more cosmic jousts — enough to make a whole tournament!

From Space Scoop ● May 21, 2025

History shows they’ve acted as statesmen in times of crisis before and temporarily paused their jousts on social media and in the courts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

Thirteen years on from his untimely death, the influence of the continent's most charismatic star is enduringly felt when Europe take on the USA in their biennial jousts.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025

Mr. Trump relished his jousts with journalists, even as he vilified the news media in increasingly menacing ways.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

At sixteen, he was the youngest rider on the field, yet he had unhorsed three knights of the Kingsguard that morning in his first three jousts.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

The White House has jousted with Beijing on trade but reached a broad truce with China after a major escalation last spring.

From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026

Fleetwood and Thomas jousted through the back nine and also made it to the last all square.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025

Medieval English knights donned armor, mounted highly trained horses, and jousted with long lances in spectacular ritual combats.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 21, 2024

Tesla and plaintiff attorneys jousted in the run-up about what evidence and arguments each side could make.

From Reuters ● Sep. 28, 2023

When two knights jousted they held their lances in their right hands, but they directed their horses at one another so that each man had his opponent on his near side.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

TV commercials showed construction workers jousting with FatMaxes, and Stanley sued copycat competitors for alleged patent infringement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

These include regional fisheries bodies and the International Seabed Authority -- the forum where nations are jousting over proposed rules on the environmentally destructive deep-sea mining industry.

From Barron's ● Jan. 17, 2026

And like sword fights, jousting is never not entertaining.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025

I groaned to see a giant fork and spoon mounted on the kitchen wall of one of Marvin’s for-sale properties, then smiled when the silverware got ripped down and repurposed as jousting weapons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025

As it turned out, Turquine did sit better when it came to the tilt, so that this particular criticism came to nothing—but it throws a sidelight on jousting and may have been worth mentioning.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White