Bible Dictionaries
Pentathlon

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear.

(2):

(n.) In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest made up of a running broad jump, throwing the javelin, a 200-meter run, throwing the discus, and a 1500-meter run.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pentathlon'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pentathlon.html. 1828.