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UK
/mˈæɹəθən/
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[ US /ˈmɛɹəˌθɑn/ ]
[ US /ˈmɛɹəˌθɑn/ ]
NOUN
- any long and arduous undertaking
- a footrace of 26 miles 385 yards
How To Use marathon In A Sentence
- The marathon race is the big test of endurance in the Olympics.
- Marathon runners will take to Sukhumvit Highway southbound towards Sattahip before returning to the finish line.
- A Swindon doctor and marathon runner looks set to finish the ultimate endurance test in the Sahara Desert.
- he is running the Marathon this year
- In 1997 they were part of a 20-strong all-woman expedition which reached the North Pole in relays - a 600-mile marathon which was a first for an all-woman team.
- Ignoring the pain, he sprinted toward the gate like a runner at the end of a marathon.
- She is, she says, still exhausted from the marathon Moma performance which ended almost four months ago. Interview: Marina Abramovic
- In Mthatha, there will be a youth football tournament, a "heroes marathon" and a seminar to celebrate not only Mandela's 90th birthday but that of another African National Congress veteran Albertina Sisulu as well. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Over the course of five months, Warren went from running 12 - minute miles in 5ks to doing a 50k (31 miles) ultramarathon.
- There is another rich, full life being lived by him that has nothing to do with dark screening rooms and old movie marathons, homages, or visual quotations.