shot put

English

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Noun

Remigius Machura (Czech athlete - shot put)

shot put (plural shot puts)

1. (athletics) An athletics event where a competitor must hurl a heavy metal orb as far as possible. Because of the weight of the ball this is done with a pushing motion rather than a throwing motion.

Related terms

• put shot

Translations

athletics event

• Czech: vrh koulí (cs) m
• Danish: kuglestød (da) n
• Finnish: kuulantyöntö (fi)
• French: lancer du poids (fr) m
• German: Kugelstoßen (de) n
• Greek: σφαιροβολία (el) (sfairovolía) f, σφαίρα (el) (sfaíra) f
• Hungarian: súlylökés (hu)
• Icelandic: kúluvarp (is) n
• Persian: پرتاب وزنه (fa)

• Romanian: aruncarea greutății (ro) f
• Russian: мета́ние ядра́ (ru) (metánije jadrá) n, толкание ядра (ru) (tolkánije jadrá) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бацање кугле (sh) n

  Roman: bacanje kugle (sh) n

• Slovene: suvanje krogle (sl) n
• Spanish: lanzamiento de peso (es) m, lanzamiento de bala (es) m
• Volapük: glöbijedam (vo)