These spikes were probably used for display rather than physical combat.

As a youth he had avoided physical combat whenever possible.

They too are proficient in all sorts of physical combat.

She might be a policewoman, but he was trained in physical combat himself.

It was going to come to direct physical combat between them.

It wouldn't do to get caught in the middle of a physical combat.

He was actually in physical combat with the game.

The month of continuous mental and physical combat had taken its toll.

The parties have been locked in combat, moral and physical, for decades.

Little physical combat took place between opposing countries during this time of political hostility.