Crossword-Solution: PENTATHLON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pentathlon | n. | A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “PENTATHLON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Althletic contest | 1 answer |
| Contest that involves epees and pistols | 1 answer |
| Contest that involves épées and pistols | 1 answer |
| Five-in-one Olympic sport | 1 answer |
| Five-in-one Olympics event | 1 answer |
| Five-part athletic event | 1 answer |
| Its events include fencing and shooting | 1 answer |
| Modern Olympic event one shoots for? | 1 answer |
| Modern Summer Olympics contest | 1 answer |
| Olympian undertaking | 1 answer |
| Summer Olympics contest whose participants do the ends of the answers to the starred clues | 1 answer |
| an athletic contest involving participation by each contestant in five different events | 1 answer |
| five event sport | 1 answer |
| Athletic contest | 2 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with PENTATHLON (5)
The Pentathlon: the Honors paid to Great Athletes.—We have now seen average specimens of all the usual athletic sports of the Greeks.
The victor in the Pentathlon at one of the great Pan-Hellenic games (Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian, or Nemean) or even in the local Attic contest at the Panathenæa is a marked man around Athens or any other Greek city.
The Route to the Acropolis.—Phormion, son of Cresphontes, has been to Arcadia, and won the pentathlon in some athletic contests held at Mantinea.
The sixth contestant in the pentathlon, most honourable of the games held at the Isthmus, is Glaucon, son of Conon the Athenian; his grandfather—” a jangling shout drowned him.
Now Hermippus is Conon’s mortal enemy; therefore in great wrath Conon disinherited his son,—but now, consenting to forgive him if he wins the parsley crown in the pentathlon—” “A safe promise,” interrupted a Spartan in broadest Doric; “the pretty boy has no chance against Lycon, our Laconian giant.” “Boaster!” retorted an Athenian.
Quotes with PENTATHLON (2)
I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
I grew up watching the Olympics and did some athletics for my school, winning the Welsh pentathlon championship.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (2005–2022).