Paralympics
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Usage
What are the Paralympics? The Paralympics, formally called the Paralympic Games, are an international athletic competition featuring multiple sporting events between athletes with a range of bodily differences and disabilities.The event is modeled after the Olympic Games, featuring the world’s top athletes in their sports, with the top three finishers in each event being awarded medals: gold for first place, silver for second place, and bronze for third place. Like the Olympics, there are Winter and Summer versions of the Paralympics, and they are usually held after the corresponding Olympic event in the same city.The Winter Paralympics feature winter sports, including skiing, snowboarding, ice hockey, and many others. The Summer Paralympics feature traditionally warm weather and indoor sports, like track and field, swimming, and wheelchair basketball, among many others.Eligibility for and competition in the Paralympics is based on categories that involve bodily differences and different types of disabilities, including those related to muscle power and movement, range of movement, limb differences, visual impairment, and intellectual disabilities.Athletes who compete in the Paralympics can be called Paralympians.
Etymology
Origin of Paralympics
C20: parallel + Olympics
Example Sentences
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It is preparing to host the Paralympics and is currently staging Milan Fashion Week.
From Barron's
Grospiron appeared on Wednesday before a French Senate committee, along with Pierre-Antoine Molina, the civil servant responsible for the Olympics and the Paralympics, devoted to discussing the crisis affecting the leadership.
From Barron's
Para-snowboarders Matt Hamilton and Nina Sparks have been added to the team, and Sparks will become the first female snowboarder to represent Britain at a Paralympics.
From BBC
As a result, athletes have been able to return to FIS competitions and the 10 athletes have been awarded bipartite commission invitations to compete at the Paralympics.
From BBC
Six Russians and four Belarusians will be allowed to take part under their own flags at the Milan-Cortina Paralympics rather than as neutral athletes, the Games' governing body confirmed to AFP on Tuesday.
From Barron's
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