decathlon

See also: décathlon

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːˈkæθlɒn/, /dɪˈkæθlɒn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

decathlon (plural decathlons or decathla)

1. An athletic contest consisting of ten events which includes sprinting, hurdling, jumping, and throwing over a span of two days.
   • 2020 December 2, Richard Goldstein, “Rafer Johnson, Winner of a Memorable Decathlon, Is Dead”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

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

   • 2021 July 6, Shauna Farnell, “An Olympic Hurdle: Why Is the Decathlon Only for Men?”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     For now, Gray and her peers are able to compete for Olympic berths only in the seven-event heptathlon, while the decathlon is restricted to men.

2. A contest in science and math proving skill.

Related terms

• decathlete

Translations

athletic contest

• Armenian: տասնամարտ (hy) (tasnamart)
• Bulgarian: десетобой m (desetoboj)
• Catalan: decatló m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十項全能／十项全能 (zh) (shíxiàng quánnéng)

• Czech: desetiboj m
• Danish: tikamp c
• Dutch: tienkamp (nl) m
• Finnish: kymmenottelu (fi)
• French: décathlon (fr) m
• Galician: décatlon m
• Galician: décatlon m
• German: Zehnkampf (de) m, Dekathlon m or n
• Hungarian: tízpróba (hu)
• Icelandic: tugþraut f
• Italian: decathlon (it) m
• Japanese: 十種競技 (ja) (じっしゅきょうぎ, jisshiukyōgi)
• Kazakh: онсайыс (onsaiys)
• Korean: 십종 경기(十種競技) (sipjong gyeonggi)
• Macedonian: десетобој m (desetoboj), декатлон m (dekatlon)
• Malay: dasalumba
• Malayalam: ഡക്കാത്ത്‌ലോൺ (ḍakkātt‌lōṇ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tikamp m

  Nynorsk: tikamp m

• Persian: دهگانه (fa)
• Polish: dziesięciobój (pl) m
• Portuguese: decatlo (pt) m
• Romanian: decatlon (ro) n
• Russian: десятибо́рье (ru) n (desjatibórʹje)
• Slovak: desaťboj m
• Spanish: decatlón m
• Swedish: tiokamp (sv) c
• Turkish: dekatlon (tr)
• Vietnamese: mười môn phối hợp

Anagrams

• latched on

Italian

Etymology

From deca- +‎ -athlon.

Noun

decathlon m (invariable)

1. (athletics) decathlon

Derived terms

• decatleta