1. scrimmage -- ((American football) practice play between a football team's squads)
2. melee, scrimmage, battle royal -- (a noisy riotous fight)
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Footmarks are stamped over it in all senses, heel to heel, heel to hollow, toe to toe, feet locked, a morris of shuffling feet without body phantoms, all in a scrimmage higgledypiggledy. - from Ulysses by James Joyce