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shot put

/ˈʃɒtpʊt/

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British/ˈʃɔtpɵt/

shot put noun: an athletics event where a competitor must hurl a heavy metal orb ("shot") as far as possible. Because of the weight of the ball this is done with a pushing ("putting") motion rather than a throwing motion.

shot put: an athletics event where a competitor must hurl a heavy metal orb ("shot") as far as possible....
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Noun

shot put (usually uncountable, plural shot puts)

  1. (usually) An athletics event where a competitor must hurl a heavy metal orb ("shot") as far as possible. Because of the weight of the ball this is done with a pushing ("putting") motion rather than a throwing motion.
  2. (countable, usually) A trial of shot put.
  3. (countable, usually) A ball used to perform the action of shot put.

shot put meaning in Kannada, Gujarati, Arabic and Malay

shot put in Kannada

ಗುಂಡು ಎಸೆತ, ಗುಂಡೆಸೆತ

shot put in Gujarati

athletics event
ગોળાફેંક goḷāpheṅk

shot put in Arabic

athletics event
رَمْيُ الجُلَّة ramyu l-julla

shot put in Malay

athletics event
lontar peluru
More languagesFewer languages
shot put in Indonesian
tolak peluru
shot put in Persian
پرتاب وزنه
shot put in Vietnamese
đẩy tạ

Forms of shot put

pluralshot puts
alternative formshotput

Origin of shot put

Compound of shot (noun) + put (verb).

Words formed from shot put

Questions about shot put

What does shot put mean?
Shot put means an athletics event where a competitor must hurl a heavy metal orb ("shot") as far as possible. Because of the weight of the ball this is done with a pushing ("putting") motion rather than a throwing motion.
What is shot put in Kannada?
Shot put in Kannada is ಗುಂಡು ಎಸೆತ, ಗುಂಡೆಸೆತ. See Shot put meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is shot put?
Shot put is a noun.
How do you pronounce shot put?
Shot put is pronounced /ˈʃɒtpʊt/ (UK).
What is the plural of shot put?
The plural of shot put is shot puts.

Words near shot put in the dictionary

  1. shot one's wad
  2. shot oneself in the foot
  3. shot out
  4. shot prop
  5. shot props
  6. shot put
  7. shot puts
  8. shot putter
  9. shot putters
  10. shot rock
  11. shot rocks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shot put (page history and authors); shot put (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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