Crossword clues for discuses
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discus \Dis"cus\, n.; pl. E. Discuses, L. Disci. [L. See Disk.]
A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill.
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The exercise with the discus.
Note: This among the Greeks was one of the chief gymnastic exercises and was included in the Pentathlon (the contest of the five exercises). The chief contest was that of throwing the discus to the greatest possible distance.
A disk. See Disk.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of discus English)
Usage examples of "discuses".
He tossed two more discuses out on the field for the boys to practice with.
Ty drew a line on the ground to indicate the end of the throwing box and then got out his discuses and hefted one in his hand.
In the gymnasium naked athletes hurled javelins and discuses, and wrestled with terrifying zeal.
Tubruk had insisted they wash and change into clean tunics before setting out, but even at that late hour the vast space was still full of the young of Rome, gathered in groups, throwing discuses and javelins, kicking balls to each other and riding ponies and horses with shouted encouragement.
Below the scratches, the snow water continued in pink-tinted runnels over breasts elongated by years of nursing, the rounded hill of her stomach, down toward the whitening thatch of her womanhood, discuses and almost forgotten.
And the next second it's your six-inch raindrops pumping up and down like bobbins on the front steps and the thunder and lightning setting off every car alarm in the street and the drain covers bursting their housings and slithering like discuses down the road in the brown current and the palm fronds and trash-cans adding their unlovely contribution, and the black fellows in capes who always appear out of nowhere whenever there's a down-pour, flogging you golf umbrellas through your car window or offering to push you to higher ground for a dollar so that you don't get your distributor wet.