Competitive basketball is primarily an indoor sport played on a carefully marked and maintained basketball court, but less regulated variations are often played outdoors in both inner city and remote areas.

Competitive artistic gymnastics is the best known of the gymnastic sports.

The compilation of these crucial elements is sometimes termed CIS or CRS, a Competitive Intelligence Solution or Competitive Response Solution.

In contrast, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is funded by businesses, accuses the media of being biased in favor of science and against business interests, and of credulously reporting science that purports to show that greenhouse gasses cause global warming.

Serendipity is a key concept in Competitive Intelligence because it is one of the tools for avoiding Blind Spots ( see Blindspots analysis )

Competitive show bands perform only one show that is continually refined throughout a season, while bands that focus on entertainment rather than competition usually perform a unique show for each game.

In 2008, a series of studies conducted by the Center for Competitive Politics, an organization whose mission is to " oppose so-called reformers ’ efforts to limit campaign contributions taxpayer funded political campaigns " found that the programs in Maine, Arizona, and New Jersey had failed to accomplish their stated goals, including electing more women, reducing government spending, reducing special interest influence on elections, bringing more diverse backgrounds into the legislature, or meeting most other stated objectives, including increasing competition or voter participation.

Competitive karuta is played with uta-garuta cards with competitions on various levels.

Rose – Hulman Institute is listed among the nation ’ s top 80 colleges and universities in Barron ’ s 2009 Guide to the Most Competitive Colleges.

* Competitive selection is the process that determines which information gains access to working memory.

Juniata College is mentioned in the following publications: 2006 Princeton Review's Best 361 Colleges ; Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives ; Kaplan, Inc .' s Insider's Guide to the 328 Most Interesting Colleges ; Peterson's Competitive Colleges ; Miriam Weinstein's Making A Difference College Guide: Outstanding Colleges to Help You Make a Better World ; Barron's Best Buys in College Education ; Leland Miles ' Provoking Thought: What Colleges Should Do for Students ; Elle Girl Magazine: Top 50 colleges that Dare to be Different ; Rugg's Recommendations on the Colleges ; and Don Asher's Cool Colleges.

According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the cost to the economy of government regulation in the United States is approximately $ 1. 75 trillion per year, which exceeds all corporate pretax profits put together.

TCNJ currently is ranked as one of the “ Most Competitive ” institutions in the nation by Barron ’ s Profiles of American Colleges.

Competitive free markets unrestrained by excessive government regulation are seen as being able to naturally ensure that the allocation of resources occurs with the greatest efficiency possible and the economic growth is raised and stabilized.

One seminal book is Boxwell's Benchmarking for Competitive Advantage ( 1994 ).

Competitive boxing in Great Britain is effectively terminated until after the foundation of the National Sporting Club in 1891.

The diamond model is an economical model developed by Michael Porter in his book The Competitive Advantage of Nations, where he published his theory of why particular industries become competitive in particular locations.

Competitive advantage is defined as the strategic advantage one business entity has over its rival entities within its competitive industry.

Competitive advantage rests on the notion that cheap labor is ubiquitous and natural resources are not necessary for a good economy.

Freediving is often strongly associated with competitive breath-hold diving or Competitive Apnea.

Competitive freediving is currently governed by two world associations: AIDA International ( International Association for Development of Apnea ) and CMAS ( World Underwater Federation ).

Competitive intangibles are the source from which competitive advantage flows, or is destroyed.

The dancers in this image are members of a tap dance class. Competitive dance is a popular, widespread activity in which competitors perform dances in any of several permitted dance styles — such as acro, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, modern, and tap — before a common group of judges.

Yùndòng Sanda ( Mandarin Chinese, Sport Free Fighting ), or Jingzheng Sanda ( Mandarin Chinese, Competitive Free Fighting ): A modern fighting method, sport, and applicable component of Wushu / Kung Fu influenced by traditional Chinese Boxing, of which takedowns & throws are legal in competition, as well as all other sorts of striking ( use of arms & legs ).

The International Federation of Competitive Eating, Inc. ( IFOCE ) is an organization that supervises and regulates eating contests across the globe, acting as a central resource for the sport.

Competitive dressage is an international sport ranging from beginner levels to the Olympics.

* Competitive trail riding, an equestrian sport

Competitive eating, or speed eating, is a sport in which participants compete against each other to consume large quantities of food in a short time period.

Competitive eaters are sometimes known as " gurgitators ," a word used by those close to the sport and an assumed opposite of regurgitation.

Competitive eating is depicted in a fictionalized manner as a nationally recognized sport in Soviet-era Hungary in the Hungarian film Taxidermia, as well as in the King of the Hill episode, The Fat and the Furious.

Competitive target shooters were paid compensation for their pistols if they agreed to give up the sport for five years.

Competitive kettlebell lifting has a long history in Russia but started being organised as a standard sport under the name Girevoy Sport () only during the 1960s.

Competitive processes for preserving meats are by canning and freezing.

Competitive archery involves shooting arrows at a target for accuracy from a set distance or distances.

Competitive leagues formed regularly, and also disbanded regularly.

The WCC also awards a prize for the top 20-hole shooter in the Competitive Singles qualifying round, in the Recreational Singles qualifying round, in the Intermediate Singles, and in the Junior Singles.

Competitive markets may also be found in market-based alternatives to capitalism such as market socialism and co-operative economics.

* Competitive dance, in which a variety of theater dance styles such as: acro, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, and tap, are permitted.

Competitive athletes are divided by gender, and often by age group.

* Competitive feature film: The festivals in Berlin, Cairo, Cannes, Goa, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Mar del Plata, Montreal, Moscow, San Sebastián, Shanghai, Tokyo, Venice, and Warsaw are accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations ( FIAPF ) in the category of competitive feature films.

' Competitive intelligence ' describes the legal and ethical activity of systematically gathering, analyzing and managing information on industrial competitors.

* Eldred, Michael ( 1984 ) Critique of Competitive Freedom and the Bourgeois-Democratic State: Outline of a Form-analytic Extension of Marx's Uncompleted System.

Part I: The Competitive Firm.

Part I: The Competitive Firm.

Competitive analysis formalizes this idea by comparing the relative performance of an online and offline algorithm for the same problem instance.

Competitive pole vaulting began using solid ash poles.

Competitive rowing favours tall, muscular athletes due to the additional leverage height provides in pulling the oar through the water as well as the explosive power needed to propel the boat at high speed.

Competitive running grew out of religious festivals in various areas.

Competitive running grew out of religious festivals in various areas such as Greece, Egypt, Asia, and the East African Rift in Africa.

Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800, mostly using breaststroke and in 1873 John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native Americans, but substituting a scissor kick for the traditional flutter kick in order to reduce splashing.

Competitive swimwear seeks to improve upon bare human skin in order to obtain a speed advantage.

Competitive teams master six basic skills: serve, pass, set, attack, block and dig.