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Olympic diving

Olympic diving noun: a specific competition in the Olympics, involving diving off a ten-meter platform from a three-meter springboard.

Noun

Olympic diving (uncountable)

  1. A specific competition in the Olympics, involving diving off a ten-meter platform from a three-meter springboard.
    • Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn’t count.2000, Timothy Vick, How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett
    • Ethical efforts are often best judged like Olympic diving. It is important to compare what people actually accomplish to the degree of difficulty they face.2002, Joseph L Badaracco Jr. Leading Quietly http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=KOzUSxcXX20C&pg=PA117&lpg=PA117&sig=ny59AMgy0CgdsP8JLzrJFWrMDwc

Questions about Olympic diving

What does Olympic diving mean?
Olympic diving means a specific competition in the Olympics, involving diving off a ten-meter platform from a three-meter springboard.
What part of speech is Olympic diving?
Olympic diving is a noun.

Words near Olympic diving in the dictionary

  1. Olympians
  2. Olympias
  3. Olympic
  4. Olympic Athletes from Russia
  5. Olympic breakfast
  6. Olympic diving
  7. Olympic flame
  8. Olympic flames
  9. Olympic Games
  10. Olympic goal
  11. Olympic goals

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