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# olympic

«olympic» in Mova's school dictionary: **about the Olympic Games, the biggest international sports…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (Olympic, usually with capital O); noun (the Olympics)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Olympic means about the Olympic Games, the biggest international sports competition, held every four years in summer and winter versions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympic/#m1)

2) Olympic can describe something big or of top standard, like an Olympic-size pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In sport and PE, athletes compete for gold, silver and bronze medals; the Olympic flag has five rings for the continents. The Paralympic Games are for disabled athletes. In history, the first Olympic Games were held in ancient Greece at Olympia. Phrases: "Olympic Games", "Olympic champion", "Olympic-size pool" (50 metres long).

### examples

- She wants to be an Olympic swimmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympic/#x1)
- The Olympic flag has five coloured rings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympic/#x2)
- We watched the Olympics on TV. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympic/#x3)
- An Olympic-size pool is fifty metres long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympic/#x4)
- He became an Olympic champion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympic/#x5)
- The Olympic torch was carried across the country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympic/#x6)
- The first Olympic Games were held in ancient Greece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympic/#x7)
- These races, like the Olympic Games, were celebrated at intervals of four years, and were called Herae. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympic/#x8)

### note

Write with a capital O: Olympic, the Olympics. Do not confuse with "Olympian" (a person who takes part; also a Greek god of Mount Olympus). The summer and winter Games now take turns, two years apart.

### In the corpora

- [Breaking, or breakdancing, started in New York in the 1970s and was an Olympic sport for the first time at Paris 2024.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/9/)
- [People of all ages knit; the British Olympic diver Tom Daley was filmed knitting between events at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime/11/)
- [Judo has been in the Olympics since 1964 and taekwondo since 2000.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/43-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts/16/)
- [Britain's Sky Brown won an Olympic bronze medal in skateboarding at 13, in Tokyo.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/15/)
- [An Olympic gold medal is mostly silver with a coating of gold; the rules say at least 6 g of gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «olympic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.