The word 'scrimmage' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a practice or training session in a team sport, where players engage in mock matches against each other to practice and improve their skills. It can also refer to an informal or unofficial game or competition between teams. Example: The football team held a scrimmage on Saturday to prepare for their upcoming match against their rival school.
A clean-shaven young man, wearing a white shirt, black waistcoat and sun-glasses, presses through the adoring scrimmage around Miss Bhutto.
To maximise the odds of stopping the run, Mr Belichick stacked eight defenders right on the line of scrimmage, ensuring that it would take every muscle in Mr Lynch's body to reach the end zone.
One party could emerge from the scrimmage with a decisive victory.That might explain why Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi development economist and this year's Nobel peace prize winner, has suggested that he will launch a political party, creating a third force in the corrupt and chaotic land.
Either way, he lives to fight again in Florida on January 29th.The polls predict a four-way scrimmage in Florida.
Mr Karzai, wearing the motley tribal garb that made him, in more hopeful times, a symbol of national unity in a war-shattered land, arrived in a scrimmage of foreign photographers, spoke for ten minutes and then was bundled away.As almost his first campaign appearance in Kabul, ahead of presidential and provincial elections due on August 20th, this was underwhelming.
He also has the quick reactions necessary to respond to the rapidly changing conditions at the line of scrimmage, where nimble 150kg giants, bulging with padding and sporting helmets and face-masks, barrel into and around each other.
The bridge is so packed with hawkers' stalls that what should be a gentle three-minute stroll across the river Vltava becomes a sweaty ten-minute scrimmage.
And much is required of the government that emerges from this scrimmage: not least, the beginnings of a reconciliation process in the south of the country, where Kyrgyz-Uzbek relations remain fraught.In a divided country, little used to democracy, many are gloomy about the political future.
PROSPERO had expected a scrimmage.
Brienne of Tarth, who bests the knight Loras, in a scrimmage, wields a piece of iron as well as any man, as do the women of the Mormont clan.
The wider, longer field 150 yards (137.2 metres) by 65 yards (59.4 metres)—with 12 men on a side and only three tries for a first down (with the defense required to line up one yard behind the scrimmage line), encourages a more open style of play (laterals and passing rather than running).
