olympic games

Questions about olympic games

What does olympic games mean?

olympic games means "the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for olympic games?

Close synonyms include Olympics, Olympiad, Olympian Games. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is olympic games a common word?

olympic games is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.