biathlon

See also: Biathlon

English

WOTD – 5 March 2022

Etymology

PIE word
*dwóh₁

Biathlon involves cross-country skiing (top) and rifle shooting. It is contested at both the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

From bi- (prefix meaning ‘two; both’) +‎ -athlon (suffix meaning ‘contest’), modelled after pentathlon.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /baɪˈæθlən/, /-lɒn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /baɪˈæθˌlɑn/

• Audio (GA)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bi‧ath‧lon

Noun

biathlon (countable and uncountable, plural biathlons)

1. (winter sports, uncountable) Racing combining cross-country skiing and rifle shooting; (countable) a particular instance of such a race.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with biathle (“an athletic contest consisting of running and swimming”) or duathlon (“an athletic contest consisting of cycling and running”).

Hypernyms

• Nordic skiing

Coordinate terms

• duathlon · triathlon · quadrathlon · tetrathlon · pentathlon · hexathlon · heptathlon · octathlon · decathlon · pentadecathlon
• aquathlon · skiathlon

Derived terms

• biathlete
• biathloner
• para biathlon, para-biathlon

Translations

racing combining cross-country skiing and rifle shooting; a particular instance of such a race

• Asturian: biatlón m
• Azerbaijani: biatlon
• Basque: biatloi
• Belarusian: біятло́н (bijatlón)
• Bulgarian: биатло́н m (biatlón)
• Catalan: biatló m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冬季兩項／冬季两项 (dōngjì liǎngxiàng), 兩項比賽／两项比赛 (liǎngxiàng bǐsài), 兩項競賽／两项竞赛 (liǎngxiàng jìngsài)

• Czech: biatlon (cs) m
• Danish: skiskydning c
• Dutch: biathlon m (obsolete), biatlon (nl) m
• Esperanto: biatlono
• Estonian: laskesuusatamine
• Finnish: ampumahiihto (fi)
• French: biathlon (fr) m
• Georgian: ბიატლონი (biaṭloni)
• German: Biathlon (de) n
• Greek: δίαθλο (díathlo)
• Hebrew: ביאתלון (he) m
• Hungarian: biatlon (hu)
• Icelandic: skíðaskotfimi f
• Irish: dé-atlan m
• Italian: biathlon (it) m
• Japanese: バイアスロン (ja) (baiasuron)
• Korean: 바이애슬론 (baiaeseullon)
• Latvian: biatlons m
• Limburgish: biatlon
• Lithuanian: biatlonas
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skiskyting (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: skiskyting f

• Polish: biathlon (pl) m, biatlon (pl) m, dwubój zimowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: biatlo m
• Romanian: biatlon (ro)
• Russian: биатло́н (ru) m (biatlón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: би̏атлон m

  Roman: bȉatlon (sh) m

• Slovak: biatlon
• Slovene: biatlon (sl)
• Spanish: biatlón m
• Swedish: skidskytte (sv)
• Thai: ทวิกีฬาฤดูหนาว
• Turkish: biatlon (tr)
• Ukrainian: біатло́н m (biatlón)

See also

• cross training

Further reading

• biathlon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

biathlon m (plural biathlons)

1. Superseded spelling of biatlon.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bja.tlɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

biathlon m (uncountable)

1. biathlon

Related terms

• biathlète

Italian

Noun

biathlon m (invariable)

1. biathlon

Polish

Alternative forms

• biatlon

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English biathlon, French biathlon, or German Biathlon, ultimately from bi- +‎ Ancient Greek ἆθλον (âthlon). First attested in 1891, but in common usage only as of 1958.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈat.lɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atlɔn
• Syllabification: bi‧ath‧lon

Noun

biathlon m inan

1. biathlon

   Synonym: dwubój zimowy

   mistrzostwa w biathlonie ― biathlon championship

   uprawiać biathlon ― to do a biathlon

Declension

Declension of biathlon

	singular
nominative	biathlon
genitive	biathlonu
dative	biathlonowi
accusative	biathlon
instrumental	biathlonem
locative	biathlonie
vocative	biathlonie

Derived terms

adjective

• biathlonowy

 

nouns

• biathlonista
• biathlonistka

 

Further reading

• biathlon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• biathlon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Alternative forms

• biatlon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːatlɔn/

Noun

biathlon c

1. (winter sports) biathlon

Usage notes

• For notes on the spelling, see -athlon.

Declension

Invariable besides the genitive form biathlons.