Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An athletic contest consisting of five track and field events, usually running races at two different distances, the long jump, and the discus and javelin throws.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anc. Gr. games, a contest including five separate exercises—leaping, the foot-race, throwing the discus, throwing the spear, and wrestling—all of which took place between the same contestants, on the same day, and in a given order. The winner must have been successful in at least three exercises.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An ancient athletics discipline, featuring five events:
stadion ,wrestling ,long jump ,javelin anddiscus - noun athletics
modern pentathlon
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an athletic contest consisting of five different events
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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problem with keeping the term pentathlon for the modified competition in which shooting and running are combined into a single contest.
Language Log 2008
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RIO DE JANEIRO—Competitors in the aeronautical pentathlon are an elite group, and not just because there are so few of them—less than 100.
The Aeronautical Pentathlon Has Six Events—and Flying Doesn't Count Adam Thompson 2011
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Marcelo Feitosa A competitor in the World Military Games in Rio de Janeiro prepares for the flying portion of the aeronautical pentathlon, one of the world's most obscure sports.
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Competitors in the aeronautical pentathlon are an elite group.
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As host of the World Military Games, Brazil's aeronautical pentathlon team practiced full-time for months in advance.
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Van Commenee, who will announce on Tuesday the athletes due to compete for the British team in Paris, was more hopeful for Ennis, the world indoor pentathlon champion.
Charles van Commenee rues spate of British athlete injuries 2011
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The contestants compete in a pentathlon with Olympic skater Apolo Ohno as their coach.
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Aeronautical pentathlon—which inexplicably has six events—is a riff on the modern pentathlon at the Olympics.
The Aeronautical Pentathlon Has Six Events—and Flying Doesn't Count Adam Thompson 2011
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The Olympic testing programme has been unfurling with a quiet precision and understated efficiency since May, such that the number of events that have already taken place, from modern pentathlon to mountain biking, would probably surprise you apparently there was even a trial of Wimbledon as the Olympic tennis venue – it was called the All England Championships and won by a Novak Djokovic.
Sebastian Coe must be running on Jedi mind control| Emma John 2011
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Marcelo Feitosa One of the quirks of aeronautical pentathlon is that, despite the name, the in-air competition does not directly decide the winner of the six-event sport.
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