"discus throw" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} discus throw
  1. (athletics) An athletic throwing event where the object to be thrown is a heavy lenticular disc called discus. Wikipedia link: discus throw Categories (topical): Athletics Derived forms: discus thrower Translations (athletic event where a discus is thrown): disko jaurtiketa (Basque), диск хвърляне (disk hvǎrljane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), llançament de disc [masculine] (Catalan), 鐵餅 (Chinese Mandarin), 铁饼 (tiěbǐng) (Chinese Mandarin), hod diskem [masculine] (Czech), diskoskast [neuter] (Danish), discuswerpen [neuter] (Dutch), diskoĵetado (Esperanto), kiekonheitto (Finnish), lancer du disque [masculine] (French), lanzamento de disco [masculine] (Galician), Diskuswurf [masculine] (German), Diskuswerfen [neuter] (German), δισκοβολία (diskovolía) [feminine] (Greek), ચક્રફેંક (cakrapheṅk) (Gujarati), diszkoszvetés (Hungarian), kringlukast [neuter] (Icelandic), lancio del disco [masculine] (Italian), 円盤投 (enban-tō) (alt: えんばんとう) (Japanese), 원반던지기 (wonbandeonjigi) (Korean), diska mešana [feminine] (Latvian), disko metimas [masculine] (Lithuanian), lempar cakera (Malay), diskoskast [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), diskoskast [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), rzut dyskiem [masculine] (Polish), lançamento de disco [masculine] (Portuguese), lançamento do disco [masculine] (Portuguese), aruncarea discului [feminine] (Romanian), метание диска (metanije diska) [neuter] (Russian), бацање диска [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), bacanje diska [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), hod diskom [masculine] (Slovak), lanzamiento de disco [masculine] (Spanish), diskuskast [neuter] (Swedish), disk atma (Turkish), метання диска (metannja dyska) [neuter] (Ukrainian), ném đĩa (Vietnamese), diskudijed (Volapük)

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      "sense": "athletic event where a discus is thrown",
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      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "athletic event where a discus is thrown",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "athletic event where a discus is thrown",
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "athletic event where a discus is thrown",
      "word": "disk atma"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "metannja dyska",
      "sense": "athletic event where a discus is thrown",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "метання диска"
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "athletic event where a discus is thrown",
      "word": "ném đĩa"
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    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "athletic event where a discus is thrown",
      "word": "diskudijed"
    }
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  "word": "discus throw"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.