SPORTS: VOCABULARY RELATED TO OTHER SPORTS AND ATHLETICS PART ONE (41)

SPORTS: VOCABULARY RELATED TO OTHER SPORTS AND ATHLETICS PART ONE athletic physically strong and robust athletics sports events such as running, jumping , throwing etc., that athletes compete in baton a sturdy stick that police personnel carry as a weapon for punishment broad jump a sport event in which people try to jump forward with full force possibly running up to a starting line cross-country relating to racing or skiing over the countryside instead of over a track dash  Vocabulary participants run very fast over a short distance decathlon a sporting event in which people compete in ten different sports (The modern Olympic decathlon consists of 100-meter race , 400-meter race , 1500-meter race, 110-meter high hurdles, javelin throw, discus throw, shot put, pole vault, high jump and long jump) discus a heavy flat round object thicker in the center than at the circumference and that is thrown by the player for a maximum distance field event a sporting event by athletes  for example jumping or  throwing the javelin in a track-and-field meet other than a race half-marathon a long-running race on an open course  of about 21.1 kilometers or 13 miles that is half the distance of a marathon heat the sequence of races or competitions, the winners of which then compete against each other in the subsequent competitions heptathlon a sporting event exclusively  for  female athletes who compete in seven different events 100-meter hurdles, high jump,  shot put,  200-meter race,  long jump,  javelin throw and 800-meter race high jump a sporting event in which players attempt to jump over a horizontal bar that is gradually raised higher in the subsequent successful attempts hurdle to leap over  a series of vertical frames especially while running javelin a sporting event in which a javelin (a long stick with a pointed end) is thrown for distance lane a narrow marked section of a track or a swimming pool to be used by an individual player when taking part in a competition lap one round from the beginning to the end of a track used for running long jump a track-and-field event in which players attempt to jump as far forward as possible after running up to starting point marathon a long-running race of about 42 kilometers or 26 miles meet a sports competition middle-distance running a race for a distance that is neither very short nor very long (usually from 800 to 1500 meters) outstrip to run faster than the player in a race so as to be more successful than  the one competing against