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Paralympics en · PROPN

Etymology

Blend of para- (as in paraplegia or parallel (as preferred by the International Paralympic Committee itself, according to Snopes)) + Olympics, itself from Olympic + -s.

Meanings

1. Synonym of Paralympic Games (“an international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue”).
   • The flames will then be joined together next week at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, the home of the Paralympics, and the united flame will make its final journey to London for the opening of the 14th Paralympic Games next Wednesday. […] The lighting ceremonies mark the start of the biggest Paralympics in history, which will see 4,200 Paralympians from 165 nations compete in London in sports including wheelchair racing, athletics, blind football and wheelchair rugby, and pit their wills against the finest talents in the world. 2012 August 21, Alexandra Topping, “Paralympic flames light up countdown to biggest Games in history”, in The Guardian:
   • At present, however, the Long Beach resident has more than records on his mind, mainly getting a representative U.S. team to the 1964 "paralympics" to be held in Tokyo Nov. 8–12. [Frank] Vecera is on a fund-raising drive for the six California athletes selected to perform on this year's team. The tab for transporting the six to Tokyo is $3,900. 1964 August 20, “Funds sought for ‘Paralympian’ trip”, in Nick B[oddie] Williams, editor, Los Angeles Times, volume LXXXIII, number 250, Los Angeles, Calif.: Times Mirror Company, →OCLC, part III (Sports), page 8, columns 2–3:

Forms

Coordinates

Deaflympic · Olympic

Relateds

Paralympiad · Paralympic Games · Paras · Paralympian · Paralympic

Synonyms

Paralympic Games

Translations (12)

fr Paralympiques (synonym of Paralympic Games — see also Paralympic Games) · ru Параолимпиа́да (synonym of Paralympic Games — see also Paralympic Games) · ru Паралимпиа́да (synonym of Paralympic Games — see also Paralympic Games) · pl paraolimpiada (synonym of Paralympic Games — see also Paralympic Games) · sv Paralympics (synonym of Paralympic Games — see also Paralympic Games) · es Juegos Paralímpicos (synonym of Paralympic Games — see also Paralympic Games) · fi paralympialaiset (synonym of Paralympic Games — see also Paralympic Games) · de Paralympics (synonym of Paralympic Games — see also Paralympic Games) · hu paralimpia (synonym of Paralympic Games — see also Paralympic Games) · pt Paraolimpíadas (synonym of Paralympic Games — see also Paralympic Games) · pt Jogos Paraolímpicos (synonym of Paralympic Games — see also Paralympic Games) · cs paralympiáda (synonym of Paralympic Games — see also Paralympic Games)