shot put

shot put

See also: shotput

English

Alternative forms

• shotput

Noun

Remigius Machura (Czech athlete - shot put)

shot put (usually uncountable, plural shot puts)

1. (athletics, uncountable) An athletics event where a competitor must hurl a heavy metal orb as far as possible. Because of the weight of the ball this is done with a pushing motion rather than a throwing motion.
2. (athletics, countable) A trial of shot put.
3. (athletics, countable) A ball used to perform the action of shot put.

Derived terms

• shot putter

Related terms

• put shot

Translations

athletics event

Basque: pisu jaurtiketa Bulgarian: тласкането на гюле n (tlaskaneto na gjule) Catalan: llançament de pes m Chinese: Mandarin: 鉛球 (zh), 铅球 (zh) (qiānqiú) Czech: vrh koulí m Danish: kuglestød (da) n Dutch: kogelstoten (nl) n Esperanto: globoĵeto Estonian: kuulitõuge Finnish: kuulantyöntö (fi) French: lancer du poids (fr) m German: Kugelstoßen (de) n Greek: σφαιροβολία (el) f (sfairovolía), σφαίρα (el) f (sfaíra) Gujarati: ગોળાફેંક (goḷāpheṅk) Hebrew: הדיפת כדור ברזל‎ (he) m (hadifát kadúr barzél) Hungarian: súlylökés (hu) Icelandic: kúluvarp (is) n Italian: getto del peso m, lancio del peso m Japanese: 砲丸投 (ja) (ほうがんなげ, hōgannage) Korean: 포환던지기 (pohwandeonjigi)

Latvian: lodes grūšana f Lithuanian: rutulio stūmimas m Maori: panga matā Norwegian: Bokmål: kulestøt n Nynorsk: kulestøyt m Persian: پرتاب وزنه‎ Polish: pchnięcie kulą (pl) m Portuguese: arremesso de peso m Romanian: aruncarea greutății f Russian: мета́ние ядра́ n (metánije jadrá), толка́ние ядра́ n (tolkánije jadrá) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бацање кугле n Roman: bacanje kugle n Slovak: vrh guľou m Slovene: suvanje krogle n Spanish: lanzamiento de peso m, lanzamiento de bala m Swedish: kulstötning (sv) c Turkish: gülle atma (tr) Ukrainian: штовхання ядра n (štovxannja jadra) Volapük: glöbijedam