1) Athletic competition 2) Athletic contest 3) Athletics 4) Five-part athletic event
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A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words pente (five) and -athlon (competition) (πένταθλον). The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Ancient Olympic Games. Five events were contested over one day for the Ancient Olympic pentathlon, starting with ...
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• (n.) In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest made up of a running broad jump, throwing the javelin, a 200-meter run, throwing the discus, and a 1500-meter run. • (n.) A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing t...
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athletic contest entailing five distinct types of competition. In the ancient Greek Olympics, the pentathlon included a race the length of the ... [5 related articles]
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Pen·tath'lon noun [ New Latin , from Greek ...; ... five + ... a contest.]
(Gr. Antiq.) A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear.
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The pentathlon is a five sport standard event for women on the programme of all major athletics championships. It is an all-round test of sprinting, hurdling, jumping, and throwing.
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n] - an athletic contest consisting of five different events
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pentathlon An athletic contest comprising five different track and field events and won by the contestant gaining the highest total score.
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an Olympic event comprised of five events, discus, javelin, long jump, running, and wrestling; the exact order of the events is unknown, it is also unknown whether the victor had to win all the events or just the majority; in myth, it was Jason who invented the pentathlon.
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noun an athletic contest consisting of five different events
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(modern) Five-sport competition. Pentathlon consists of former military training pursuits: swimming, fencing, running, horsemanship, and shooting. It has been an Olympic event for men since 1912, but the Sydney 2000 Games were the first Olympics to include a women's event. The firs...
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[Difficult words] an athletic contest consisting of five different events
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[Obscure words] an athletic contest consisting of five different events
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