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Paralympic, n. and a. colloq.|pærəˈlɪmpɪk|
Also paralympic.
[f. paraplegic n. + Olympic a. and n.: see -ics.]
A. n. pl. An international athletic competition modelled on the Olympic Games, for paraplegics and other disabled athletes.
1954Bucks Advertiser 6 Aug. 4/1 (caption) The flags of the nations flutter high above Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where paraplegic athletes from all over the world had assembled for the Paralympics. 1964N.Y. Times 8 Nov. v. 2/8, 368 competitors from 21 countries..will compete..in the second Paralympics, the new name of the International Stoke Mandeville Games for men and women who, through some misfortune, are unable to walk. 1975Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 750/1 Paraplegic games. Also popularly known as the ‘paralympics’ and the ‘wheel-chair Olympics’, this is an annual sports meeting for semi-paralysed competitors. 1986Swimming Times Sept. 25/2 The England/Wales swimmers have established themselves as the World's best, and the team to beat at the Paralympics in Seoul two years hence.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Paralympics, esp. as Paralympic Games. Cf. Paraplegic Games s.v. *paraplegic n. b.
1955N.Y. Times 20 July 29/2 Eleven men who work for Pan American World Airways will..fly to the Fourth International Paralympic Games at Aylesbury in Britain. 1964Times 10 Nov. 8/6 D. Thompson (Britain) won two gold medals in the first full day of the 22-nation ‘paralympic’ games here today. 1988Times 29 Jan. 34/1 1988 is an Olympic year. It is also, as fewer people will know, a Paralympic year. |