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decathlon
Alternative clues for the word decathlon
- Olympic event won by Bruce Jenner in 1976 and Ashton Eaton in 2012 and 2016
- Summer Olympics event
- Latched on to jockey - it's eventful!
- An athletic contest consisting of ten different events
- Told he can become involved in an Olympic event
- Competition in foreign chalet overseen by academic
- Two-day Olympic event
Word definitions for decathlon in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
decathlon \de*cath"lon\, n. [See Deca- ; Pentathlon .] In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest consisting of a 100-meter run, a broad jump, putting the shot, a running high-jump, a 400-meter run, throwing the discus, a 100-meter hurdle race, pole ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin, from δέκα ( déka , meaning "ten") and ἄθλος ( áthlos , or ἄθλον, áthlon , meaning "feat"). Events are held over two consecutive ...
Usage examples of decathlon.
I assume someone who's won the decathlon in the All-Systems Olympics can do that.
John's only personal encounter with a Hemnoid before this had been at the Interplanetary Olympiad in Brisbane, Australia, the year John had won the decathlon competition.
The Half-Pint—I mean, John Tardy—was a former Olympic decathlon champion.
Then I decided, for like the ten thousandth time, that I was one rotten contradictory fellow, that my talent of dissipation should have long since turned me into a slack, wheezing, puffy ruin, had it not been combined with that iron Calvinistic conscience which, upon noting too much progressive decay, would drive me into the kind of training the decathlon boys seem to enjoy, punishing myself back into the kind of fitness that makes you feel as if no maniac could dent you with a sledge hammer.
The bedroom just fitted the bed, and the rest of the floor was covered with newspapers, dirty underwear, and a couple of Slazenger tennis bags still in their Decathlon sports-shop carrier.
One gold for Jonathan Edwards in the triple jump and a bronze for Dean Macey in the decathlon.