intervarsity

1. UKnot comparabletaking place between universities

   Oxford stands for intra-varsity in addition to intervarsity sport.

   1914 (Apr), L. C. Hull, "Athletics at Oxford: The New Rules", The American Oxonian 1(1): 23

   3 more examples

   Yet, while its Lillie Bridge ground staged the inter-varsity match and the national amateur championships ...

   2004, Mike Huggins, The Victorians and sport

   This intervarsity meet was held in the South China Athletic Association's new Caroline Hill Stadium ...

   2006, S. F. Lam, Julian W. Chang, The quest for gold: fifty years of amateur sports in Hong Kong

   The fencers lunged and parried their way to a Western Canadian Intervarsity Athletic Union championship.

   2006, James M. Pitsula, As one who serves: the making of the University of Regina

plural intervarsities

1. A competition taking place between universities.

   I responded by saying that the intervarsity was a student affair and had to be taken up with the students.

   2000, Stuart Saunders, Vice-chancellor on a tightrope

   2 more examples

   As a player Craven took part in seven Intervarsities with remarkable success[…]Asked which Intervarsities were special, he said they were all special.

   1994, Paul Dobson, Doc: The Life of Danie Craven, pages 76–77

   Much the same could be said for the annual intervarsities between the universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch

   2005, Saul Dubow, Alan Jeeves, South Africa's 1940s: worlds of possibilities