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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An athletic contest first held at the 1912 Olympics in which each participant competes in five events (running, swimming, horseback riding, fencing, and pistol shooting), with the running and shooting events now combined as a single event.
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- noun An
athletics event, where athletes compete inépée fencing ,shooting ,freestyle swimming ,show jumping andcross country
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