Marathon vs Ultrarace - What's the difference?
marathon | ultrarace |
A 42.195 kilometre (26 mile 385 yard) road race.
(figuratively, by extension) Any extended or sustained activity.
(sports) A race which is longer than a marathon
* {{quote-news, 1998, August 10, , The Long Haul: 50-Mile Run Tests Limits, Miami Herald, page=1D
, passage=With humidity approaching 100 percent almost every year, Larry and Penny Thompson Memorial Park is not an easy place in which to endure an ultrarace .}}
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 ultrarace is
(sports) a race which is longer than a marathon.marathon
English
(wikipedia marathon)Noun
(en noun)- He had a cleaning marathon the night before his girlfriend came over.
Derived terms
* marathoner * half marathon * ultramarathonReferences
ultrarace
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