In the end, why not be happy with both, with the BMXes and the pentathlons, with the swans of synchro and the Quasimodos of wrestling? Sweet.
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Pentathlon
Synonyms for "pentathlon" (27 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (13)
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1 entriesderived
1 entrieshas context
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2 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
54 translations across 32 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- հնգամարտ noun (modern pentathlon)
Bulgarian
2 entries- модерен петобой noun (modern pentathlon)
- петобой noun (ancient pentathlon)
Catalan
2 entries- pentatló noun (ancient pentathlon)
- pentatló noun (modern pentathlon)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 五項全能 /五项全能 noun (modern pentathlon)
Czech
2 entries- pětiboj noun (ancient pentathlon)
- pětiboj noun (modern pentathlon)
Danish
1 entries- femkamp noun (modern pentathlon)
Dutch
2 entries- pentatlon noun (ancient pentathlon)
- vijfkamp noun (modern pentathlon)
Estonian
1 entries- viievõistlus noun (modern pentathlon)
Finnish
2 entries- antiikin viisiottelu noun (ancient pentathlon)
- nykyaikainen viisiottelu noun (modern pentathlon)
French
1 entries- pentathlon noun (ancient pentathlon)
Galician
2 entries- péntatlon noun (ancient pentathlon)
- péntatlon noun (modern pentathlon)
Georgian
1 entries- ხუთჭიდი noun (ancient pentathlon)
German
4 entries- Frauenfünfkampf noun (20th-century women's pentathlon)
- Fünfkampf noun (ancient pentathlon)
- Fünfkampf noun (20th-century women's pentathlon)
- Fünfkampf noun (modern pentathlon)
Greek
1 entries- πένταθλο noun (modern pentathlon)
Hungarian
1 entries- öttusa noun (modern pentathlon)
Icelandic
1 entries- fimmþraut noun (modern pentathlon)
Italian
1 entries- pentathlon noun (ancient pentathlon)
Japanese
2 entries- ペンタスロン noun (modern pentathlon)
- 五種競技 noun (modern pentathlon)
Korean
1 entries- 오종경기 noun (modern pentathlon)
Latvian
1 entries- pieccīņa noun (modern pentathlon)
Lithuanian
1 entries- penkiakovė noun (modern pentathlon)
Macedonian
4 entries- пентатлон noun (ancient pentathlon)
- пентатлон noun (20th-century women's pentathlon)
- петобој noun (ancient pentathlon)
- петобој noun (20th-century women's pentathlon)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- femkamp noun (modern pentathlon)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- femkamp noun (modern pentathlon)
Polish
1 entries- pięciobój noun (modern pentathlon)
Portuguese
2 entries- pentatlo noun (ancient pentathlon)
- pentatlo noun (modern pentathlon)
Romanian
2 entries- pentatlon noun (ancient pentathlon)
- pentatlon noun (modern pentathlon)
Russian
2 entries- пятибо́рье noun (ancient pentathlon)
- пятибо́рье noun (modern pentathlon)
Slovak
1 entries- päťboj noun (modern pentathlon)
Spanish
2 entries- pentatlón noun (ancient pentathlon)
- pentatlón noun (modern pentathlon)
Swedish
2 entries- femkamp noun (ancient pentathlon)
- femkamp noun (modern pentathlon)
Ukrainian
3 entries- п'ятибо́рство noun (ancient pentathlon)
- п'ятибо́рство noun (20th-century women's pentathlon)
- п'ятибо́рство noun (modern pentathlon)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Dwindling interest and a reputation for being outdated couldn’t change modern pentathlon. A brief video clip of a coach punching a horse at the Tokyo Olympics has altered it forever. After more than a century of having its participants compete by running, shooting, fencing, swimming and riding, modern pentathlon will drop equestrian jumping from the event, the sport’s federation said Thursday.
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