special olympics

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   an athletic contest modeled after the Olympic Games but intended for mentally or physically handicapped persons

   Broaderathletic contest

Questions about special olympics

What does special olympics mean?

special olympics means "an athletic contest modeled after the Olympic Games but intended for mentally or physically handicapped persons".

Is special olympics a common word?

special olympics is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.