Olympic or Olympics may refer to

Sports

Competitions

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

, 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 The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) 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 he ...

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 The Wenlock Olympian Games, dating from 1850, are a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games. They are organised by the Wenlock Olympian Society (WOS), and are held each year at venues across Shropshire, England, centred on the little market town o ...

, 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 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 A ...

, 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), a football and sports club based in Alexandria * Blackburn Olympic F.C., an English football club based in Blackburn, Lancashire * Rushall Olympic F.C., an English football club based in Rushall * FC Olympic Tallinn, an Estonian football club * Olympic Azzaweya SC, 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, a Swedish football club located in Lindängen * Olympic Club, 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), 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), 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, three ocean liners built for the White Star Line ** RMS Olympic, RMS ''Olympic'', sister ship of the RMS ''Titanic'' and HMHS ''Britannic'' * Olympic (unfinished ship), ''Olympic'' (unfinished ship), sister ship of RMS ''Oceanic'' * ''Olympic'', a cruise ship built in 1950 * Olympic-class ferry, ferries under construction for the Washington State Ferries fleet * Olympic station, a rapid transit station in Hong Kong * Olímpica metro station, a rapid transit station in Mexico City * Olimpiiska (Kyiv Metro), 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, 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 (TV series), ''Superstore''

Other uses

* Olympic (soil), a soil series found in Washington and Oregon, US * Olympic College, Bremerton, Washington, United States * Olympic High School (disambiguation), various US schools * Olympic Paints & Stains, a brand belonging to PPG Industries