The phrase "accepting a challenge" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of agreeing to take on a difficult task or competition.
Example: "She showed great courage by accepting a challenge to climb the highest mountain in the region."
Alternatives: "taking on a challenge" or "embracing a challenge".
Mr. Sheymov developed a new algorithm, on which he has a patent pending, after accepting a challenge from a cybersecurity expert in the federal government.
That morning the United States Supreme Court had effectively suspended lethal injection as a manner of execution by accepting a challenge to its constitutionality in a Kentucky case.
He was one of the first to note the ongoings of the British League of Ex-Servicemen and had, while accepting a challenge from one of their memebers to speak on their platform, been struck by one of them.
(Agence France-Presse) SUN HIRES COACH: The former Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach Mike Thibault was hired yesterday to lead the W.N.B.A.'s Connecticut Sun, accepting a challenge to turn a.500 team into a winner.
"Can she have it if the nurse turns, or even moves?" One frustrated nurse, tired of "having a heart and accepting a challenge," wrote in 1981: "My heart has been broken too many times and challenges have become depressing.
A1 The court set the stage for a major reconsideration of its approach to gay rights, accepting a challenge by two gay men to a Texas law that treats same-sex couples as criminals for the same sexual practices that are legal in Texas between a man and a woman.
Cook will accept a challenge, too.
On Tuesday, Epstein, the 37-year-old onetime boy wonder, accepted a challenge just as daunting.
Bellevue, often overwhelmed and underfunded, never failed to accept a challenge.
Pat has accepted a challenge, from his comedian daughter Joanna, that the pair of them swap jobs.
The exhibition features the stories of ordinary Americans who accepted a challenge and changed the course of history.
