Dimigen and Hübsch discovered that carbon‐rich metal/carbon coatings that are deposited with a process combining reactive magnetron sputtering with plasma activated chemical vapor deposition show promising tribological properties. We investigated some of these for metal/carbon compounds of chromium, tungsten, and titanium of different stoichiometry. Friction coefficients against high‐carbon low‐alloy steel were measured in a three pin‐on‐disk configuration. Three‐body wear resistance was evaluated using a modification of the three pin‐on‐disk equipment, where a polishing powder suspension was fed continuously into the tribocontact. The results showed a strong dependence of the tribological properties on composition. The variation in the three‐body wear resistance of tungstencarboncompounds agreed with Rabinowicz’s model for the dependence on Vickers hardness.