According to the Oxford English Dictionary, ?tug of war? originally meant ?the decisive contest; the real struggle or tussle, a severe contest supremacy?.
Now, ?tug of war? is a game where to teams pull at the end of a rope with the goal being to bring the rope a certain distance in one direction against the force of the opposing team's pull.
So it sounds pretty cool as it is right?
Well now imagine this game but with this contestants: A truck and a boat.