Contest may refer to:
- Competition
- Contest (novel), by Matthew Reilly
- "Contest" (Bottom), an episode of the British sitcom Bottom
- Contest, Mayenne, a village and commune of the Mayenne département in France
- Contest (ship), an Australian ship sunk in 1807
- HMS Contest, the name of various ships of the British Royal Navy
- "The Contest", a 1992 episode from the U.S. situation comedy Seinfeld
- The Con Test, an Australian game show which airs on Network Ten
- CONTEST, codename for the British government's counter-terrorism strategy
- Will contest
Famous quotes containing the word contests:
“They had their fortunes to make, everything to gain and nothing to lose. They were schooled in and anxious for debates; forcible in argument; reckless and brilliant. For them it was but a short and natural step from swaying juries in courtroom battles over the ownership of land to swaying constituents in contests for office. For the lawyer, oratory was the escalator that could lift a political candidate to higher ground.”
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.”
—James A. Garfield (1831–1881)