| 100% | ENTER | 5 | Decide to compete in |
| 100% | ENTERED | 7 | Decided to compete in |
| 71% | ENTER | 5 | Decide to compete |
| 64% | OARS | 4 | Propellers used to compete in a regatta |
| 64% | OILED | 5 | Ready to compete in Ms. Olympia, perhaps |
| 63% | ROADBIKES | 9 | They're pumped to compete in a race |
| 63% | TRIBUTE | 7 | One chosen to compete in the Hunger Games |
| 63% | CASTPAJAMAS | 11 | Decide to sleep in the nude? |
| 63% | ENTER | 5 | Decide to participate, in a competition |
| 62% | STETS | 5 | Decides to leave in the manuscript |
| 62% | LETSDEMETERRUN | 14 | Allows Persephone's mother to compete in a marathon? |
| 61% | WARCLOUD | 8 | First horse to compete in all three Triple Crown races |
| 61% | LUGERS | 6 | Ones on the fast track to compete in the Olympics? |
| 58% | SUNILEE | 7 | Gymnast who was the first Hmong American athlete to compete in the Olympics |
| 58% | SCHOFIELD | 9 | Kendall Coyne ___, first woman to compete in the NHL All-Star skills competition |
| 57% | HUNG | 4 | Unable to decide, in court |
| 57% | VIE | 3 | Compete to get in Riviera |
| 56% | FOLD | 4 | Decide not to call, in poker |
| 56% | PASS | 4 | Decide not to bid, in bridge |
| 56% | DALLIES | 7 | Is in no hurry to decide |
| 55% | FOLD | 4 | Decide not to "stay," in poker lingo |
| 54% | OPT | 3 | Decide to be involved (in) |
| 54% | OPT | 3 | Decide to participate, with "in" |
| 53% | PGA | 3 | Babe Zaharias was the first woman to compete on its tour, in brief |
| 52% | COINTOSS | 8 | Method to decide which team kicks off in football |
| 52% | HIHOCHERRYO | 11 | Game in which players compete to collect plastic fruit |
| 52% | STARE | 5 | Compete in an eye-to-eye "contest" |
| 52% | GOSOLO | 6 | What Beyoncé decided to do in 2002 |
| 50% | PATCHWORK | 9 | Game in which players compete to build the highest-scoring quilt |
| 49% | OPT | 3 | ___ in (decide to participate) |