#opponent

• Opponent — A person, group, or entity engaged in a fight, competition, dispute, or open opposition with someone; a direct opponent in a physical, intellectual, political, or legal confrontation. In a profound sense, the term does not necessarily imply personal enmity, but defines the structural role of a contrary force within a competitive system.
• Female opponent — A woman, female team, or feminine entity engaged in a competition, conflict, or open opposition with someone. The term reflects the feminine equivalent of the opponent, describing a critical force or direct competitor within any agonistic structure, maintaining the values of a performance catalyst.
• Antagonist — Being in antagonism or manifesting an active and constant opposition to someone or something else. In literature and cinema, it represents the character, force, or structural element that opposes the protagonist, generating the main conflict. In anatomy and physiology, it describes a muscle that executes a movement contrary to the movement performed by another muscle (agonist).