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decathlon
Alternative clues for the word decathlon
- Summer Olympics event
- An athletic contest consisting of ten different events
- Latched on to jockey - it's eventful!
- Two-day Olympic contest
- Competition in foreign chalet overseen by academic
- College fellow holding fragments of pad that's hard to decipher
- Olympic event won by Bruce Jenner in 1976 and Ashton Eaton in 2012 and 2016
Word definitions for decathlon in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Decathlon (foaled in 1953) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was voted the U.S. Champion Sprint Horse in 1956 and 1957. He was sired by Olympia , the Leading broodmare sire in North America in 1974. His dam was Dog Blessed, a daughter of Bull Dog ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. an athletic contest consisting of ten different events
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.