Olympic or Olympics may refer to

Sports

Competitions

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a Multi-s ...

, international multi-sport event held since 1896 **

Summer Olympic Games The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The 1896 Summer Olympics, inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, ...

Winter Olympic Games The Winter Olympic Games (), also known as the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were held in ...

Ancient Olympic Games The ancient Olympic Games (, ''ta Olympia''.), or the ancient Olympics, were a series of Athletics (sport), athletic competitions among representatives of polis, city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of ancient Greece. They were held at ...

, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece between 776 BC and 393 AD *

Olympic (greyhounds) The Olympic is a greyhound racing competition held annually at Brighton & Hove Greyhound Stadium. It was inaugurated in 1947 at Wandsworth Stadium. Following the closure of Wandsworth in June 1966 the competition switched to Charlton Stadium w ...

, a competition held annually at Brighton & Hove Greyhound Stadium

Clubs and teams

Adelaide Olympic FC Adelaide Olympic F.C. is a football club from Adelaide, South Australia. The club competes in the National Premier Leagues South Australia. Origins The club's origins can first be traced back to 1978, where it was founded under the name of Ad ...

, a soccer club from Adelaide, South Australia *

Fribourg Olympic Fribourg Olympic Basket, commonly known as Fribourg Olympic, is a Switzerland, Swiss professional basketball club that is based in Fribourg. Due to name sponsorship reasons, the former name of the club was Benetton Fribourg. The club is a seventee ...

, a professional basketball club based in Fribourg, Switzerland *

Sydney Olympic FC Sydney Olympic Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club, based in Belmore, Sydney, New South Wales, that plays in the National Premier Leagues NSW. The club was founded as Pan-Hellenic Soccer Club in 1957 by Greek immigrant ...

, an Australian soccer club * Olympic Club (Barbacena), a Brazilian football club based in Barbacena, Minas Gerais state *

Olympic Mvolyé Olympic Mvolyé, also known as Olympique Mvolyé, is a Cameroonian association football, football club based in Mvolyé. Overview Olympic enjoyed some success in the 1990s as they won the Cameroonian Cup twice in 1992 and 1994 and then went on ...

, a Cameroonian football club based in Mvolyé * Olympic Club (Egypt), a football and sports club based in Alexandria *

Blackburn Olympic F.C. Blackburn Olympic Football Club was an English football club based in Blackburn, Lancashire in the late 19th century. Although the club was only in existence for just over a decade, it is significant in the history of football in England as the ...

, an English football club based in Blackburn, Lancashire *

Rushall Olympic F.C. Rushall Olympic Football Club is an English Association football, football club based in Rushall, West Midlands, Rushall, a former Pit village, mining village that forms part of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall. The team competes in the , the ...

, an English football club based in Rushall *

FC Olympic Tallinn 150px, Previous logo Tallinna FC Olympic Olybet is an Estonian football club, playing in the town of Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay i ...

, an Estonian football club * Olympic Azzaweya SC, a Libyan football club based in Zawiya *

Wellington Olympic AFC Wellington Olympic Association Football Club is a New Zealand association football club based in Berhampore, Wellington. The club's premier team competes in the Central League, through which they can qualify for the New Zealand National League. ...

, a semi-professional association football (soccer) club in Wellington, New Zealand *

Olympic FC de Niamey Olympic FC de Niamey is a Nigerien professional football club based in Niamey. Their home games are played at Général Seyni Kountché Stadion. The club was formed in 1964 from the football club Secteur 6. Achievements *Niger Premier League: ...

, a football club based in Niamey, Niger *

BK Olympic BK Olympic is a Swedish football club located in Lindängen which is a residential area of Malmö. Background The club was founded in 1920 as IF Olympia. The following year the club was expanded and it was decided to make an application for p ...

, a Swedish football club located in Lindängen *

Olympic Club The Olympic Club is an sports club, athletic club and private social club in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. First named the "San Francisco Olympic Club", it is the oldest sports club, athletic club in the United States. Established ...

, an athletic and private social club in San Francisco, California *

Boston Olympics The Boston Olympics are a defunct ice hockey team which operated as a farm team for the Boston Bruins. They began play during the 1940–41 Eastern Amateur Hockey League season. The Olympics were often referred to by the shortened name the ‘Pic ...

, a defunct farm team for the Boston Bruins from 1940 to 1952 *

Detroit Olympics The Detroit Olympics were a minor league hockey team located in Detroit, Michigan that was a member of the Canadian Professional Hockey League 1927–29 and the International Hockey League 1929–36. The team played all of their home games at t ...

, a minor league hockey team in Detroit, Michigan, from 1927 to 1936 *

McKeesport Olympics The McKeesport Olympics were a professional football team from McKeesport, Pennsylvania from 1896 until around 1940. The Olympics were considered one of the top football teams in Pennsylvania from 1910 until 1919. History The Olympics played ag ...

, a professional football team from McKeesport, Pennsylvania, from 1896 until around 1940 *

Washington Olympics The Olympic Club of Washington, D.C., or Washington Olympics in modern nomenclature, was an early professional baseball team. When the National Association of Base Ball Players permitted openly professional clubs for the 1869 season, the Oly ...

, an early professional baseball club in Washington, DC *

FK Olimpic Sarajevo Fudbalski klub Olimpik Sarajevo () was a professional football club from Sarajevo, based in the part of the city which is called Otoka. Being one of the first teams to be formed in independent Bosnia and Herzegovina, they started off playing in ...

, a football club based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Other

Olympic Stadium ''Olympic Stadium'' is the name usually given to the main stadium of an Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports ...

, name usually given to the centrepiece stadium of the Summer Olympic Games *

Olympic Conference (disambiguation) Olympic Conference may refer to: * Olympic Conference (Illinois) * Olympic Conference (Indiana) * Olympic Conference (New Jersey) See also * Olympic Congress, a large gathering of representatives from the different constituencies of the Olympi ...

, three American high school conferences

Military

* , a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919 *

Operation Olympic Operation Downfall was the proposed Allies of World War II, Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese archipelago, Japanese home islands near the End of World War II in Asia, end of World War II. The planned operation was canceled when Su ...

, a component of Operation Downfall, the World War II Allied planned invasion of Japan *

Operation Olympic Games Operation Olympic Games was an black operation, unacknowledged campaign of sabotage by means of cyber disruption, directed at Iranian Nuclear program of Iran, nuclear facilities by the United States and Israel. As reported, it is one of the first ...

, an unacknowledged cyber-attack campaign of sabotage directed at Iranian nuclear facilities

Places

* Olympic, a commune in

Chamkar Mon District Chamkar Mon (, meaning 'Mulberry Farm') is the southernmost district in central Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The district has an area of 10.56 km2. As of the 2019 census, its population was 70,772. Administration Chamkar Mon was subdivided into ...

, Phnom Penh, Cambodia *

Tai Kok Tsui Tai Kok Tsui is an area west of Mong Kok in Yau Tsim Mong District, Yau Tsim Mong district in the Kowloon region of Hong Kong. The mixed land use of industrial and residential is present in the old area. The Cosmopolitan Dock and oil depots we ...

, a district in Hong Kong, informally called Olympic *

Olympic (constituency) Olympic () is one of the 20 constituencies of the Yau Tsim Mong District Council in Hong Kong. The seat elects one member of the council every four years. It was first created in and is formerly held by the Democratic Party's James To. The b ...

, a constituency of Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong *

Olympic Peninsula The Olympic Peninsula is a large peninsula in Western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the ...

, a large arm of land in western Washington state, United States **

Olympic Mountains The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The mountains, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, are not especially high – Mount Olympus (Washington), Mount Olympus is the high ...

, on the Olympic Peninsula **

Olympic National Park Olympic National Park is a national park of the United States located in Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula. The park has four regions: the Pacific coastline, alpine areas, the west-side temperate rainforest, and the forests of the drier e ...

, on the Olympic Peninsula

Transportation

Olympic Air Olympic Air S.A. () is a regional airline and a subsidiary of the Greece, Greek carrier Aegean Airlines. It was formed as part of the privatization of the former Greek national carrier Olympic Airlines, a company that carried the name Olympic A ...

, a Greek airline based in Athens, successor to Olympic Airlines *

Olympic Airlines Olympic Airlines (, ''Olympiakés Aerogrammés'' – OA), formerly named Olympic Airways, was the flag carrier airline of Greece. The airline's head office was located in Athens. The airline operated services to 37 domestic destinations and ...

, former state run airline of Greece that operated under the name Olympic Airways until 2009 * Olympic Steamship Company, an American company founded in 1925 * ''Olympic''-class ocean liner, three ocean liners built for the White Star Line ** RMS ''Olympic'', sister ship of the RMS ''Titanic'' and HMHS ''Britannic'' * ''Olympic'' (unfinished ship), sister ship of RMS ''Oceanic'' * Olympic-class ferry, ferries under construction for the Washington State Ferries fleet * Olympic-class container ship *

Olympic station Olympic is a List of MTR stations, station on the of Hong Kong's MTR. The livery is dodger blue. The station was originally named Tai Kok Tsui in proposals outlined by Government of Hong Kong, the government in the Airport Core Programme dur ...

, a rapid transit station in Hong Kong *

Olympic Highway Olympic Highway is a rural road in the Central West, New South Wales, central western and Riverina, south-eastern Riverina regions of New South Wales, Australia. It services rural communities, links Hume Highway with Mid-Western Highway, and ...

, New South Wales, Australia *

Olympic Boulevard (Melbourne) Swan Street (and its western section as Olympic Boulevard) is a major street running through the Melbourne suburbs of Richmond, Victoria, Richmond, Cremorne, Victoria, Cremorne and Burnley, Victoria, Burnley. The street was named after the Whit ...

, Victoria, Australia *

Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles) Olympic Boulevard (formerly 10th Street) is a major arterial road in Los Angeles, California. It stretches from Ocean Avenue on the western end of Santa Monica to East Los Angeles—farther than Wilshire Boulevard and most other streets. ...

, California, United States

Arts and entertainment

Olympic Studios Olympic Studios was a British independent recording studio based on Church Road, Barnes, Church Road, Barnes, London, Barnes, London. It is best known for its recordings of many artists throughout the late 1960s to the first decade of the 21st ...

, an independent commercial recording studio in South West London *

Olympic (band) Olympic is a Czech Rock music, rock band founded in 1962 in Prague. It is led by Petr Janda (musician), Petr Janda, who has been with the group since 1963. Over its history, Olympic has included notable musicians such as František Ringo Čech, ...

, a Czech rock band founded in 1962 *

The Olympics (band) The Olympics are an American doo-wop group, formed in 1957 by lead singer Walter Ward (singer), Walter Ward (August 28, 1940 – December 11, 2006). The group also included Eddie Lewis (tenor, Ward's cousin), Charles Fizer (tenor), Walter Hamm ...

, a U.S. doo-wop band from the 1950s *

Olympic TheatreOlympic Theatre (disambiguation) Olympic or Olympics may refer to Sports Competitions * Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896 ** Summer Olympic Games ** Winter Olympic Games * Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece bet ...

* "Olympic", a 1990 song from the album '' ex:el'' by 808 State * "Olympic", a 2010 song from the album '' Metallic Spheres'' by the Orb * "Olympics", the twelfth episode of the television series ''Superstore''

Other uses

* Olympic (soil), a soil series found in Washington and Oregon, United States *

Olympic College Olympic College is a public community college in Bremerton, Washington. It opened as Olympic Junior College on September 5, 1946. Olympic College serves Kitsap and Mason counties in Washington. The college's service area contains two major n ...

, Bremerton, Washington, United States *

Olympic High School (disambiguation) Olympic High School may refer to: *Olympic High School — Concord, California *Olympic High School — Santa Monica, California *Olympic High School (Charlotte, North Carolina) — Charlotte, North Carolina *Olympic High School (Silver ...

, various schools in the United States * Olympic Paints & Stains, a brand belonging to

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