marathoner

English

Etymology

marathon +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmæ.ɹæ.θən.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

marathoner (plural marathoners)

1. Someone who participates in a marathon or other long-distance races.
   • 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 2 November 2012:

     She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.

Derived terms

• half-marathoner

Translations

someone who participates in marathons and other long-distance races

• Basque: maratoilari
• Czech: maratonec (cs) m
• Danish: maratondeltager c, maratonløber c
• Finnish: maratoonari (fi)
• Galician: maratoniano m, maratoniana f
• Greek: μαραθωνοδρόμος (el) m or f (marathonodrómos)
• Italian: maratoneta (it) m or f
• Polish: maratończyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: maratonista m or f
• Romanian: maratonist (ro) m, maratonistă (ro) f
• Russian: марафо́нец (ru) m (marafónec)
• Spanish: maratoniano m, maratoniana f, maratonista m or f
• Turkish: maratoncu (tr)