shot put

See also: shotput

English

Alternative forms

• shotput

Noun

Remigius Machura (Czech athlete - shot put)

shot put (usually uncountable, plural shot puts)

1. (athletics, uncountable) An athletics event where a competitor must hurl a heavy metal orb ("shot") as far as possible. Because of the weight of the ball this is done with a pushing ("putting") motion rather than a throwing motion.
2. (athletics, countable) A trial of shot put.
3. (athletics, countable) A ball used to perform the action of shot put.

Derived terms

• shot putter

Related terms

• put shot

Translations

athletics event

• Arabic:رَمْيُ الجُلَّة m (ramyu l-julla)
• Basque: pisu jaurtiketa
• Bulgarian: тласкането на гюле n (tlaskaneto na gjule)
• Catalan: llançament de pes m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鉛球／铅球 (zh) (qiānqiú)

• Czech: vrh koulí m
• Danish: kuglestød (da) n
• Dutch: kogelstoten (nl) n
• Esperanto: globoĵeto
• Estonian: kuulitõuge
• Finnish: kuulantyöntö (fi)
• French: lancer du poids (fr) m
• German: Kugelstoßen (de) n
• Greek: σφαιροβολία (el) f (sfairovolía), σφαίρα (el) f (sfaíra)
• Gujarati: ગોળાફેંક (goḷāpheṅk)
• Hebrew: הדיפת כדור ברזל (he) m (hadifát kadúr barzél)
• Hungarian: súlylökés (hu)
• Icelandic: kúluvarp (is) n
• Indonesian: tolak peluru (id)
• Italian: getto del peso (it) m, lancio del peso m
• Japanese: 砲丸投 (ja) (ほうがんなげ, hōgannage)
• Korean: 투포환(投砲丸) (ko) (tupohwan), 포환던지기 (pohwandeonjigi)
• Latvian: lodes grūšana f
• Lithuanian: rutulio stūmimas m
• Malay: lontar peluru (ms)
• Maori: panga matā
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kulestøt n

  Nynorsk: kulestøyt m

• Persian: پرتاب وزنه
• Polish: pchnięcie kulą (pl) m
• Portuguese: arremesso de peso m (Brazil), lançamento do peso m (pt, Portugal)
• Romanian: aruncarea greutății f
• Russian: мета́ние ядра́ n (metánije jadrá), толка́ние ядра́ n (tolkánije jadrá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бацање кугле n

  Roman: bacanje kugle n

• Slovak: vrh guľou m
• Slovene: suvanje krogle n
• Spanish: lanzamiento de peso m, lanzamiento de bala m
• Swedish: kulstötning (sv) c
• Turkish: gülle atma (tr)
• Ukrainian: штовхання ядра n (štovxannja jadra)
• Vietnamese: đẩy tạ
• Volapük: glöbijedam