Pentathlon

[pen'tæθlən]

Definition

(noun.) an athletic contest consisting of five different events.

Editor: Tess--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Edited by Guthrie

Definition

n. a contest consisting of five exercises—wrestling throwing the discus spear-throwing leaping and running—also Pentath′lum.—n. Pentath′lēte one who contests in the pentathlon.

Edited by Dorothy