At the performance I attended, the young audience threatened to doze during the more cerebral moments but was wildly enthusiastic during pieces like "Romp," in which the dancers, dressed in gym shorts, mimicked both competitive sports and playground rivalries.
The few competitive races become playgrounds for power brokers who specialize in expensive, divisive and manipulative campaign techniques.
Fiercely competitive tournaments at places like Gladstone Playground helped ensure the team kept in top form.
While ever-shifting and fiercely competitive, the $21 billion (retail sales) U.S. toy industry is an entrepreneur's playground.
But the crowded and highly competitive feed reader space, dominated by Bloglines, Newsgator and others, was a tough playground to hang out in.
He then watched, he writes, as a free-form-if-competitive art scene ("We all wanted to be famous") metastasized into a playground for the rich, and decries artists' wholesale subservience to the transformation of "the art world" into "the art market".
The activity was most intense at the light near the end of the chute of orange barrels that leads to a precarious intersection on West Park Drive, closest to the Vanderbilt playground, where the swarming interests of groups that use the park -- competitive cyclists, commuter cyclists, pedestrians, runners, dog-walkers and drivers - tend to collide.
Whether Bridger will eventually become a World Cup racer, an X Games champion or a competitive big-mountain freeskier, or just continue to mix it all up in his Aspen playground, is anyone's guess, including his parents'.
They may be largely indistinguishable from other kids on the playground, but without the reserve capacity of a normal heart, they will never become competitive athletes.
teacher's playground charges had rightly been awed by his "primordial" track-and-field prowess as a competitive javelin-thrower.
