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Marathon vs Marathoning - What's the difference?

marathon | marathoning |

As a proper noun marathon

is a town in attica, greece, the site of the victory in 490 bc of heavily outnumbered athenians against persians.

As a noun marathoning is

the act of running a marathon.

marathon

English

(wikipedia marathon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A 42.195 kilometre (26 mile 385 yard) road race.
  • (figuratively, by extension) Any extended or sustained activity.
    • He had a cleaning marathon the night before his girlfriend came over.

    Derived terms

    * marathoner * half marathon * ultramarathon

    References

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    marathoning

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of running a marathon
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