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What is a discus?

What is a discus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.
  2. (uncountable) The athletics sport of discus throwing.
  3. (plural: discus) A discus fish (genus Symphysodon)
  4. (rare, dated) A chakram.
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Having thrown the discus some 33,000 times he attempted to qualify for the 1972 Munich games and 1976 Montreal which were not successful.
Chris Strickland, a member of the Mohegan tribe, will throw the javelin, shot put and discus and run the 100-meter dash.
I think this time round I'm just going to be concentrating on doing some throwing events, like the javelin, the discus and the shot putt.
An inscription describing the truce was written on a bronze discus which was displayed at Olympia.
He has won two silver medals in 100m dash, four silver medals and bronze medals in javelin throw and discus throw in national-level competitions.
A schoolboy died after being hit in the back by a discus thrown by another pupil during a school sports practice.

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