triathlon

noun

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as in biathlon

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Recent Examples of triathlon Her travel schedule for triathlon left very little time to train specifically for cycling. — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2024 Long Beach will host triathlon and marathon swimming. — Ivana Saric, Axios, 12 Aug. 2024 The revelation that the Y-Foil was designed not for triathlons but for the cobblestones of Europe was almost harder to believe than the whole George Plimpton thing. — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 22 Nov. 2024 Last summer, trailing by 14 seconds with 2.5km remaining of the triathlon’s run remaining, the British athlete overhauled New Zealander Hayden Wilde to claim victory. — Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for triathlon
Recent Examples of Synonyms for triathlon
  1. biathlon
  2. decathlon
  3. pentathlon
  4. tournament
  5. heptathlon
  6. competition
  7. tourney
  8. contest
Noun
  • Belarusian competitors excel in biathlon and aerial skiing, and the two sports account for every medal but one that the nation has won at the Winter Games.
    — Blythe Lawrence, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • In addition to the previous sports offered, this year's event will include alpine skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, Nordic skiing, skeleton and wheelchair curling for the first time.
    — Stephanie Petit, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
Definition of biathlon
Noun
  • Several new sports debuted at the 1904 Games, including boxing, freestyle wrestling, decathlon and a dumbbells event.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Tom Holland's Peter has a favorite bodega, chases bad guys through backyards, and struggles to mix superhero-ing with the academic decathlon.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of decathlon
Noun
  • Athletes compete in traditional sports like archery, boxing and diving, as well as military competitions like aeronautical pentathlon and naval pentathlon.
    — Danielle Battaglia, Charlotte Observer, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Jenna Fee Feyerabend won the pentathlon, claiming firsts in the high jump and shot put plus second in the long jump and 60 meters.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of pentathlon
Noun
  • The Kings defeated the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the play-in tournament before losing to the New Orleans Pelicans in a game that would have sent them to the playoffs as the No.
    — Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The Heat can finish the regular season anywhere between eighth and 10th place in the East, as the NBA’s play-in tournament features the seventh-through-10th-place teams competing for the final two playoff seeds in each conference.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2025
Definition of tournament
Noun
  • Across the track, the Aggies also saw wins from its distance medley relay team and Blake Harris in the heptathlon and from Samuel Whitmarsh in the 800m. Whitmarsh earned his second straight SEC title, legging past Mississippi State’s Abdullah Hassan in 1:47.69.
    — Cory Mull, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Four years later, after competing in her second Olympics and winning two gold medals (in the long jump and the heptathlon), Joyner-Kersee fulfilled another dream by establishing the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation.
    — Kizzy Cox, Essence, 29 Jan. 2025
Definition of heptathlon
Noun
  • The major driver for the decline in coal use is the economic competition with cheaper and cleaner fuels, such as natural gas and renewables, Ryna Cui, research director for the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland, told ABC News.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Another directorial debut, the French drama Partir un Jour from first-timer Amélie Bonnin, will open this year’s festival, screening out of competition.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
Definition of competition
Noun
  • That squad, which also started Tarik Black 15 games, went 1-1 in the Big 12 tourney then lost in the second round of the NCAAs to Stanford.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
  • All told, the tourney averaged 10.2 million viewers across CBS and WBD’s TBS/TNT/truTV, up 3% versus the year-ago mark.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Definition of tourney
Noun
  • The contest did not last long as Edwards poked Muhammad in the eye 18 seconds into the second round.
    — Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • All of the games this week will be broadcast on FanDuel Sports Kansas City, but two of the contests also will be available for a national television audience.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2025
Definition of contest

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