Olympic Games

plural noun

1

: an ancient Panhellenic festival held every fourth year and made up of contests of sports, music, and literature with the victor's prize a crown of wild olive

2

: a modified revival of the ancient Olympic Games consisting of international athletic contests that are held at separate winter and summer gatherings at four year intervals

called also Olym*pics\ ə-​ˈlim-​piks , ō-​ \

Examples of Olympic Games in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Snoop, who delighted audiences with his dispatches from the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, will be back on his ring game next month as a roving correspondent for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. —Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025

Delta is currently flying an A350 that wears a unique Team USA LA28 livery in honor of the company’s partnership of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and the athletes the will participate in them. —Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025

The parent company of the MMA league and wrestling franchise had a mixed third quarter with revenue down on tough year-over-year comps from last year’s Summer Olympic Games in Paris. —Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025

In 2024, a study commissioned by the International Olympic Committee predicted that only 56% of previous Olympic Games sites would have enough snow to be a suitable host by 2050. —Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 4 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for Olympic Games

• aims
• blames
• claims
• dames
• fames
• flames
• frames
• hames
• kames
• lames
• names
• shames

Kids Definition

Olympic Games

plural noun

1

: an ancient Greek festival held every fourth year and made up of contests in sports, music, and literature

2

: a series of international athletic contests held in a different country during the summer and the winter once every four years