Crossword clues for olympics
olympics
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Olympic games \O*lym"pic games\, or Olympics \O*lym"pics\ A modified revival of the ancient Olympian games, consisting of international athletic games, races, etc., now held once in four years, the first having been at Athens in 1896.
Note: There are now two sets of modern Olympic games, the summer games and the winter games. Both had been held every four years, in the same year, but in 1998 for the first time the winter games began to be held two years after the summer games, though each series is still held only once every four years. The number and types of sports contests held at the olympics has greatly expanded from the original number.
Usage examples of "olympics".
For at least the hundredth time in two weeks, he told me that the Eurovision show was, after the Olympics and the Oscars, the most-watched TV program in the world.
The Olympics competition for Metallurgist, Nonferrous, is about to begin.
It was a cross between Saturnalia, Oktoberfest, the Olympics, and May Day.
Paul Schumann that he was anticipating many well-paying fares during the Olympics.
The Mother Company will bring pressure upon the British government to spare no effort in protecting the Black Septembrists involved in the Munich Olympics debacle.
The whole family were with her on holidays that trip, so they camped in a caravan park near the AIS while Cathy met Australian athletes preparing for the Los Angeles Olympics, a few weeks off.
The worlds are held every second year to give track and field athletes competition between Olympics.
The scene where she reluctantly performs various aquatic tricks in exchange for fresh fish, while a jury of stone-faced judges hold up signs scoring her performance, succeeds as a hilarious parody of both the Olympics and trained dolphin shows, although, admittedly, the whole sequence is a good deal campier than the series usually gets.
He lived right outside of Como where I kept my apartment, and we had competed against each other at the Barcelona Olympics in '92, when he won the gold medal.
For instance, he claims that he was an assistant coach for Iran in the 1972 Olympics, and that he wrestled in the Asian Games, the European Games, and the Pan-American Games.
Good enough that he could probably compete in his weight class in the Terran Olympics, which are still the top athletic contest in the settled portion of the universe.
Then, while watching the summer Olympics from Atlanta, I saw the Sprite commercial with the basketball players in silhouette walking down a hallway and the announcer explaining how people look up to these guys which is when one of them hits his head on the door because they're tall.
They had heard about Paul Faithful, in Toowoomba, who had coached one of Cathy's idols, Glynis Nunn, heptathlon gold medallist at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.
Formerly of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Teams: and an expert on counter-terrorism, president of an international security-consulting company now headed oft Australia to seek a consulting contract for the next Olympics .
I assume someone who's won the decathlon in the All-Systems Olympics can do that.