Simply to see what would happen, Paul Terek, a United States decathlete, wore a baseball cap bearing his name in Japanese when he landed at the Osaka airport a few weeks ago. Some children there took the bait.
Source: wiktionary
Decathlete
//di-ˈkath-ˌlēt//
Synonyms for "decathlete"
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3 entriesTranslations
22 translations across 14 languages.
Czech
2 entries- desetibojař noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
- desetibojařka noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
Danish
1 entries- tikæmper noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
Finnish
1 entries- kymmenottelija noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
French
3 entries- décathlonien noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
- décathlonienne noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
- décathlète noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
German
2 entries- Zehnkämpfer noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
- Zehnkämpferin noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
Hungarian
1 entries- tízpróbázó noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
Italian
1 entries- decatleta noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
Kazakh
1 entries- онсайысшы noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
Macedonian
2 entries- десетобоец noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
- десетобојка noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
Romanian
2 entries- decatlonist noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
- decatlonistă noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
Russian
1 entries- десятиборец noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
Spanish
3 entries- decatleta noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
- decatloniana noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
- decatloniano noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
Swedish
1 entries- tiokampare noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
Turkish
1 entries- dekatloncu noun (athlete who competes in the decathlon)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
“Heptathlon is very geared and favorable to those who are quick,” said Gray’s coach, Andy Eggerth, who trains both heptathletes and decathletes. “A lot of world-class heptathletes are relatively bad at javelin and shot-put.”
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