The word "rivals" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that means opponents who measure themselves against one another in some way. For example, you could say: The two teams are fierce rivals in professional football.
Unlike some of its rivals it avoided major costs for litigation and legal expenses.
Multimap had 1.4 million unique users, according to Nielsen, also behind rivals MapQuest, ViaMichelin, Mappy and Map24.
Wales have not lost on the road in the Six Nations since March 2011, the month that Ireland last beat one of their title rivals, England, Wales or France, at home.
Home fixtures against Celtic and their Highland rivals, Ross County, do not sell out.
At present, its main nationalist rivals, the SDLP, are in disarray, having lost their leader, Mark Durkan, in mid-September and having no direction as to where to go in the future.
A clash of fierce rivals, and one of many which will unfold over the next eight days.
The proposed changes were opposed by commercial rivals including Channel 4 and Channel 5, who argued it would set an "unwelcome precedent" that would "devalue" public service broadcasting.
Rangers had threatened to run over the top of their city rivals within five minutes as the youngster Jamie Ness crashed home a terrific long-range drive and Steven Davis shot against the Celtic crossbar.
Make no mistake, Tesco may be ailing, but Clarke could yet blow its rivals out of the water.
But the fear – among rivals and shareholders, if not shoppers – is that chief executive Phil Clarke will eventually bring out the heavy ordnance.
We have no intention of selling one of the best players in the world to one of our rivals.
