'Contest' in the Bible

Everyone who enters an athletic contest practices self-control in everything. They do it to win a wreath that withers away, but we run to win a prize that never fades.

And if any one takes part in an athletic contest, he gets no prize unless he obeys the rules.

I have gone through the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have guarded the faith.

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,