pentathlon

noun3

1. •
   An ancient athletics discipline, featuring five events: stadion, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discus
2. •
   Ellipsis of women's pentathlon (“a 20th-century athletics discipline for women, the women's counterpart of the men's decathlon, the predecessor to the women's heptathlon, featuring five events: hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, and a run”).
3. •
   Ellipsis of modern pentathlon, a discipline with five events based on late-19th century basic military skills.

   • In the end, why not be happy with both, with the BMXes and the pentathlons, with the swans of synchro and the Quasimodos of wrestling? Sweet. — 2008