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Discus   /dˈɪskəs/   Listen
Discus

noun
(pl. E. discuses, L. disci)
1.
An athletic competition in which a disk-shaped object is thrown as far as possible.
2.
A disk used in throwing competitions.  Synonym: saucer.





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"Discus" Quotes from Famous Books



... the combatants appear to strike each other. Nor is there an instance, in any of these contests, of the Greek sign of acknowledging defeat, which was by holding up a finger in token of submission; and it was probably done by the Egyptians with a word. It is also doubtful if throwing the discus, or quoit, was an Egyptian game; but there appears to be one instance of it, in a king's tomb ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy


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