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An athletic throwing event where the object to be thrown is a heavy steel ball attached with wire (maximum length 4 ft (1.22 m)) to a handle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: field event
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
鏈球 /链球
(liànqiú)
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Czech:
hod kladivem
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Danish:
hammerkast
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Dutch:
hamerslingeren
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Dutch:
hamerwerpen
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Finnish:
moukarinheitto
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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French:
lancer du marteau
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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German:
Hammerwurf
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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German:
Hammerwerfen
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Hebrew:
יידוי פטיש
(yidúy patísh)
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Hungarian:
kalapácsvetés
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Icelandic:
sleggjukast
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Italian:
lancio del martello
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Japanese:
ハンマー投げ
(hanmā-nage)
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Korean:
해머던지기
(haemeodeonjigi)
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Polish:
rzut młotem
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Portuguese:
lançamento do martelo
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Romanian:
aruncarea ciocanului
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Russian:
мета́ние мо́лота
(metánije mólota)
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Swedish:
slägga
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Swedish:
släggkastning
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Turkish:
çekiç atma
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
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Ukrainian:
мета́ння мо́лота
(metánnja mólota)
— athletic event where a heavy steel ball with a handle attached is thrown
