"skill contest" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is mainly used to refer to an event or competition wherein the participants must demonstrate their skills in a particular area. For example, "The annual school camp ended with a skill contest between the two rival teams."
New Jersey Devils forward Brian Boyle, a former member of the Tampa Bay Lightning who sat out the start of this season while being treated for chronic myeloid leukemia, was loudly cheered by fans, as he was during Saturday's skill contests.
Kendall Coyne Schofield made history when she competed against NHL players in Friday's NHL All-Star fastest skater skills contest and finished seventh among eight contestants.
They ranged from the pointless (the Celebrity Game), the thrilling (Three-Point Shoothet) andownrightnright silly (the Skills Contest).
Jesse Scardina, The Maine Campus: Why can't they have a skills contest with the shiftiest of running backs and wide receivers?
But others said that the Lightning had been merely sore losers and that the shootout -- a skills contest tacked onto what was otherwise a tie game -- was meant to entertain fans.
Julie Sigwart, a Web designer, is holding what she calls a "skills contest" to give away her six-bedroom, four-bathroom house with ocean views in Maui, which she has been trying to sell since last October.
The derby is similar to the slam-dunk contest on TNT the night before the N.B.A. All-Star Game, and the skills contest shown on ESPN before the N.H.L. All-Star Game -- each provides a stark forum to display individual talents.
My reality check came after I won just about every foot race I ran as a teenager in Teaneck, N.J., and even one at age 25 in Puerto Rico against a couple of their national runners and the notably fast Bernie Williams (he did say I jumped the gun) during an all-star skills contest.
That ceremony — officially, the "Cosmic True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humanity Cheon Il Guk Book of Life Registration Blessing" — would cap a week of activities that thus far had included an arts festival, a survival skills contest and a goat-butchering demonstration.
