(sports) 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”).
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paralympics
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for paralympics.
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Very true, but that actually validates my point- how many amputees actively strive to participate in the paralympics?
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(sports) 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”).
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for paralympics.
noun
(sports) 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”).
Example sentences
Very true, but that actually validates my point- how many amputees actively strive to participate in the paralympics?
Ditto the paralympics - there should be a class where they can pimp up their kit to the max.
It's not clear to me that the inequality of post-injury physical abilities in the paralympics is substantially different from the the inequality of innate physical abilities in the olympics.
It seems hard to get that same level of equality in the paralympics.
I believe that in addition to the Olympics and paralympics there should be an 'enhanced' Olympics.
I was 2nd a nationals once, but never good enough to make it to the paralympics.
But is it really reasonable to expect the Paralympics or Special Olympics to be any more of an exemplar of that, than any other athletic competition?
There could be translympics just like there is paralympics.
This isn't some appeal to idk, introducing communism and making everyone equal but this argument is as dumb as making a healthy runner compete in the paralympics.
The Paralympics coverage is abysmal by comparison.
In the paralympics, I would consider a level playing field to be one where all the athletes were injured or disabled in a similar fashion.
Also I think olympically speaking this would be a perfect case for the paralympics, who have experience with (arbitrarily) adjusting competitions for varying levels of bodily differences.
Quote examples
When you're out there against a guy who is faster and stronger than you, there isn't a whole hell of a lot your team can do for you." [1] > I know less about the Paralympics than the Special Olympics (and yes, I know they're different), but to me, both always stood out to me as wonderful reminders of the true importance of sportsmanship - not athleticism, but sportsmanship.
That being said the "swimming in the Seine" during the Olympics and Paralympics has been complicated but I wouldn’t call it a "fuckup"; triathlon athletes are used to these conditions (think about Rio, which had much higher contamination levels, or Sydney which had (risk of) sharks and bacterias), and nobody has been sick after the competitions.
Proper noun examples
They fly in 15,000 people (and 9000 for the Paralympics), watched by billions.
Indeed, it's no coincidence that the recently completed Olympics had separate competitions not only for physically disabled athletes (the Paralympics), but also for women.
Sadly this just makes me less interested in watching the Paralympics.
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How do you use paralympics in a sentence?
Very true, but that actually validates my point- how many amputees actively strive to participate in the paralympics?
What does paralympics mean?
(sports) 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”).
What part of speech is paralympics?
paralympics is commonly used as noun.