Olympic or Olympics may refer to

Sports

Competitions

* Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896 **

Summer Olympic Games The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...

** Winter Olympic Games *

Ancient Olympic Games The ancient Olympic Games (Ὀλυμπιακοὶ ἀγῶνες; la, Olympia, neuter plural: "the Olympics") were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and were one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. ...

, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece between 776 BC and 393 AD * Wenlock Olympian Games, a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games, held since 1850 *

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 wh ...

, a competition held annually at Brighton & Hove Greyhound Stadium

Clubs and teams

* Adelaide Olympic FC, a soccer club from Adelaide, South Australia * Fribourg Olympic, a professional basketball club based in Fribourg, Switzerland * Sydney Olympic FC, an Australian soccer club * Olympic Club (Barbacena), a Brazilian football club based in Barbacena, Minas Gerais state * Olympic Mvolyé, a Cameroonian football club based in Mvolyé *

Olympic Club (Egypt) Olympic Club ( arz, النادي الأوليمبي) is an Egyptian football and sports club based in Alexandria, Egypt. The club currently plays in the Egyptian Second Division, the second-highest league in the Egyptian football league system. ...

, a football and sports club based in Alexandria *

Blackburn Olympic F.C. Blackburn () is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of Preston and north- ...

, 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 now forming part of the northern suburbs of Walsall. The team plays in the . History E ...

, 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 most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finlan ...

, an Estonian football club *

Olympic Azzaweya SC Olympic Azzaweya Sports Club ( ar, نادي أولمبي الزاوية الرياضي) is a Libyan football club based in Zawiya, Libya. They are the only club from outside Tripoli or Benghazi to win the Libyan Premier League title. They achi ...

, a Libyan football club based in Zawiya * Wellington Olympic AFC, a semi-professional association football (soccer) club in Wellington, New Zealand * Olympic FC de Niamey, 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 prov ...

, 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 o ...

, an athletic and private social club in San Francisco, California * Boston Olympics, a defunct farm team for the Boston Bruins from 1940 to 1952 * Detroit Olympics, a minor league hockey team in Detroit, Michigan, from 1927 to 1936 * McKeesport Olympics, a professional football team from McKeesport, Pennsylvania, from 1896 until around 1940 * Washington Olympics, an early professional baseball club in Washington, DC * FK Olimpic Sarajevo, a football club based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Other

* Olympic Stadium, name usually given to the centrepiece stadium of the Summer Olympic Games * Olympic Conference (disambiguation), three American high school conferences

Military

* USS ''Olympic'' (SP-260), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919 * Operation Olympic, a component of Operation Downfall, the World War II Allied planned invasion of Japan

Places

* Tai Kok Tsui, a district in Hong Kong, informally called Olympic * Olympic Peninsula, a large arm of land in western Washington state, United States * Olympic Mountains, on the Olympic Peninsula * Olympic National Park, on the Olympic Peninsula *

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 boun ...

, a constituency of Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong * Olympic, a commune in Chamkar Mon District, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Transportation

* Olympic Air, a Greek airline based in Athens, successor to Olympic Airlines * Olympic Airlines, former state run airline of Greece that operated under the name Olympic Airways until 2009 *

Olympic-class ocean liner The ''Olympic''-class ocean liners were a trio of British ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line during the early 20th century. They were (1911), ''Titanic'' (1912) and (1915). All three were designed to be ...

, 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'', a cruise ship built in 1950 *

Olympic-class ferry The Olympic-class ferries are the newest vessels to the Washington State Ferries fleet. They are intended to allow the agency to retire the aging ferries currently in service. The ferry design is based on the Issaquah-class ferry, Issaquah-clas ...

, ferries under construction for the Washington State Ferries fleet * Olympic station, a rapid transit station in Hong Kong *

Olímpica metro station Olímpica metro station is a station of the Mexico City Metro in the ''colonias'' (neighborhoods) of Jardines de Aragón and La Olímpica II, in Ecatepec de Morelos, State of Mexico, in the metropolitan area of Mexico City. It is a ...

, a rapid transit station in Mexico City * Olimpiiska, a metro station in Kyiv * Olympic Highway, New South Wales, Australia * Olympic Boulevard (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia * Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles), California, United States

Arts and entertainment

Olympic Studios Olympic Studios was a renowned British independent commercial recording studio based in Barnes, London. It is best known for its recordings of many artists throughout the late 1960s to the first decade of the 21st century, including Jimi Hendr ...

, an independent commercial recording studio in South West London * Olympic (band), a Czech band founded in 1962 * The Olympics (band), a U.S. doo-wop band from the 1950s * Olympic Theatre, a London theatre from 1806 to 1899 * "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) The Olympic soil series is a type of deep, dark reddish brown moderately fine-textured soil which has developed on mafic rock such as basalt. The series covers large areas in southwestern Washington and western Oregon, and usually supports luxuria ...

, a soil series found in Washington and Oregon, US * Olympic College, 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 US schools * Olympic Paints & Stains, a brand belonging to

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