The phrase 'debating contest' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe an event or competition where opponents debate against each other, for example: "The high school held a debating contest to promote leadership skills among its students".
At the age of 16 he won debating contest on whether Austrians were Germans.
For politics is not a gentle debating contest, but a war of words.
History isn't a procession or a debating contest — it is a struggle.
If it had been a student debating contest, then the honours would have gone to Al Gore.
Hague had won a minor debating contest on Yorkshire television, so he put his name forward as a possible speaker in a late-afternoon time slot.
This is the Gingrich who references his Catholic faith at any opportunity and who challenges Barack Obama to a debating contest with no moderator.
While in official debate contests, contestants will be given little time to prepare their arguments, the students on this course had three weeks in which to consider and research their case.
Unlike in college debating contests, real-world results depend mainly on the merits rather than the ingenuity of the arguments.
Its boosters argue that one-on-one instruction helps children learn, and point to the striking number of home-schooled children who win debating contests and spelling bees.
British research, meanwhile, suggests that despite Gove's enthusiasm for more sport and debating contests, the teaching of characteristics closely related to academic work is more use than rugged outdoor activities.
In the Philippines, where debating contests are held in verse, in the Tagalog language, the principle of the rhyme seems different from anything in Europe, so that the last syllable of one line rhymes with the penultimate of the next.
