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n. A modern athletic contest, now generally limited to women's competition, in which each participant competes in five track and field events, usually the 200-meter and 1,500-meter runs, the long jump, and the discus and javelin throws.

n. The modern pentathlon.

n. An ancient athletics discipline, featuring five events: stadion, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discus

n. modern 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.

n. In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest made up of a running broad jump, throwing the javelin, a 200-meter run, throwing the discus, and a 1500-meter run.

n. In anc. Gr. games, a contest including five separate exercises—leaping, the foot-race, throwing the discus, throwing the spear, and wrestling—all of which took place between the same contestants, on the same day, and in a given order. The winner must have been successful in at least three exercises.

n. an athletic contest consisting of five different events

"problem with keeping the term pentathlon for the modified competition in which shooting and running are combined into a single contest."

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