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Decathlon

//ɖᵻˈkat̪ʰ.lɔn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An athletic contest consisting of ten events which includes sprinting, hurdling, jumping, and throwing over a span of two days.

    "He entered U.C.L.A. in 1954 and played for the renowned coach John Wooden’s basketball team there while training for decathlons."

  2. 2
    an athletic contest consisting of ten different events wordnet
  3. 3
    A contest in science and math proving skill.

Etymology

From dec- + -athlon, coined for the 1912 Summer Olympics in analogy to the word pentathlon.

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