He tried a smile, then scowled as they played tug-of-war with one of her bags.

There's no need to play tug-of-war with your toddler.

It felt as if she were playing tug-of-war with piano wire.

She bent down and took away the envelope that the pair were using to play tug-of-war.

She and Devers have been playing tug-of-war with the record for more than a month.

Two ship's boys were openly playing tug-of-war with a sealskin.

"When you play tug-of-war up here, the name of the game isn't checkers," Tom said.

This is like playing tug-of-war against five teams of draft horses!

It annoyed him that his reaction to her should be so strong, while hers played tug-of-war at the opposite end of the spectrum.

They played tug-of-war between east team and west team.