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Olympic Games   /oʊlˈɪmpɪk geɪmz/   Listen
Olympic Games

noun
1.
The modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country.  Synonyms: Olympiad, Olympics.
2.
The ancient Panhellenic celebration at Olympia in honor of Zeus; held every 4 years beginning in 776 BC.  Synonym: Olympian Games.



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"Olympic games" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tarentine gauze. But so few are the deeds worth mentioning in the falling state that we are pleased even to be told that, in the one hundred and seventy-eighth Olympiad, Strato of Alexandria conquered in the Olympic games and was crowned in the same day for wrestling, and for pancratium, or wrestling and boxing joined, these sports being considered among the most honourable ...
— History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 10 (of 12) • S. Rappoport

... mind and body as engaged in combat, and says, "I buffet my body, and subject it." The word here translated " subject," in the original, means "to carry into servitude," and is a term taken from the language of the olympic games where the boxers dragged off the arena, their conquered, disabled, and helpless antagonists like slaves, in which humbled condition the Apostle represents his body to be ...
— The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old • George Bethune English

... thou sing? What happy man to equal glories bring? Begin, begin thy noble choice, And let the hills around reflect the image of thy voice. Pisa does to Jove belong, Jove and Pisa claim thy song. The fair first-fruits of war, th' Olympic games, Alcides, offer'd up to Jove; Alcides, too, thy strings may move, But, oh! what man to join with these can worthy prove? Join Theron boldly to their sacred names; Theron the next honour claims; Theron to no man gives place, Is first in Pisa's and ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... better than the rest of them—a shouting, singing, smooth-faced, six-foot set they are, who think they inherit the combined wisdom of all their grandfathers but none of their weaknesses; reckless fear-nothings, fit only for war and the Olympic games!" ...
— The Hot Swamp • R.M. Ballantyne



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