Word List Olympics – Summer Games 337 words

Olympics – Summer Games Vocabulary Word List (337)

  • A

    activation, active, aerobics, agent, aggressive, alternate, announcement, arrangements, assist, assistance, athlete, attendance, attraction, averages

  • B

    balance, ball, basketball, beauty, berth, best, bicycle, bid, blood, blood pressure, body, bones, bounce, boxing, breath, breathe, bronze medal, butterfly stroke, buzzer

  • C

    captivate, cardiovascular, challenge, champion, championship, charisma, charm, coach, collapse, commitment, competition, conditioning, conference, contingencies, contract, conversion, convert, coordination, courage, curfew, curling, cycle, cycling

  • D

    defense, defensive, delegation, diet, disease, distraction, division, doctor, downhill, dribble, drive, drugs, dumbbells

  • E

    elevation, emergency, endurance, energy, errors, evacuation, event, event, exalt, exaltation, excellence, exemplary, exemption, exercise, exertion, expectation

  • F

    feature, finalist, firepower, fit, flex, force, foul, framework, free throw, fumble, function

  • G

    games, goal, gold medal, grip, guests, guidelines, gymnasium

  • H

    halftime, hammer, handlebar, health, healthy, herbs, hit, home run, hoops, hurtles, hygiene, hygienic

  • I

    imagination, individual, infection, information, injunction, injury, insulation, interception, interpretation

  • J

    jargon, joy, judge, judo, jump, jump rope, jumping jack

  • K

    kick, kinetics

  • L

    leader, league, legend, losing, loss, lucky, lumbar

  • M

    magic, manager, margin, massage, masseur, mat, maximize, measure, medal, media, medical, medication, memory, metabolic, method, minimize, miss, moisture, moisturize, monitor, motivate, motivation, muscles

  • N

    needs, nemesis, nervousness, news, nurse

  • O

    offensive, official, opportunity, opt, optimism, option, outbreak, outstanding

  • P

    panic, paraffin, pass, pedal, penalties, percentage, perform, performance, perimeter, perspiration, pessimism, petrify, physiotherapy, pitcher, plan, players, points, poll, position, possession, potent, power, power play, practice, preparation, prevention, professional, profile, program, promising, protect, protection, pulley, puncture

  • Q

    quads, quality, quest, quick, quintessential, quiver

  • R

    ranking, rebound, recognition, record, recovery, recruit, regulations, rehabilitation, relax, reserve, resilient, resistance, response, responsible, risk, role, row, running, rush, Russia

  • S

    sanitary, saves, scare, scenario, scent, scheme, scoreboard, scores, scoring, season, security, sedentary, sensible, shape up, shot, shut-out, silver medal, size, slide, soccer, speculation, spinning, spirit, sports, sportsmanship, squad, squat, stability, stamina, standings, statistics, strategy, streak, strength, stretching, stride, strong, sugar, superstition, supine, support, supremacy, suspension, symptoms

  • T

    tackle, target, team, teammate, technical, terror, terrorist, testing, therapeutic, therapy, timeout, timing, tone, torch, torso, touch down, tournament, trainer, training, transform, tremors, trot, turnovers

  • U

    unbelievable, underscore, unique, unrestricted, unusual

  • V

    vaccination, valiant, valor, vault, venue, vibration, victory, violation, votes

  • W

    waive, warm up, watchful, weary, weigh, weights, win, wince, winning, wisdom, withdraw, work out, world

  • X

    X-rays

  • Y

    yards, youth

  • Z

    zeal, zeal

Summer Olympic Sports that Americans tend to prefer
Based on a survey of more than 1,000 people age 18+; respondents could choose more than one —- source: taylorpr.com

Gymnastics = 69%
Swimming/Diving = 62%
Track & Field = 46%
Basketball = 35%
Baseball = 32%

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