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 vari ...

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

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 h ...

* Ancient Olympic Games, 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 ...

, a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games, held since 1850 * Olympic (greyhounds), 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 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 seventeen-time Swiss ...

, 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 immigran ...

, an Australian soccer club *

Olympic Club (Barbacena) Olympic Club, commonly known as Olympic, or as Olympic de Barbacena is a Brazilian football club based in Barbacena, Minas Gerais state. History The club was founded on July 25, 1915. Olympic won the Campeonato Mineiro Segunda Divisão in 2004, b ...

, 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. Olympic enjoyed some success in the 1990s as they won the Cameroonian Cup twice in 1992 and 1994 and then went on to compe ...

, 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 Wellington Olympic AFC is a New Zealand amateur football club based in Berhampore, Wellington. The club's premier team competes in the Central League through which they have qualified for the New Zealand National League. Club history The club w ...

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

Olympic FC de Niamey Olympic FC de Niamey is a Nigerien football club based in Niamey. Their home games are played at Général Seyni Kountché Stadion. The club was formed in 1974 from the football club Secteur 6. Achievements * Niger Premier League: 12 ::196 ...

, 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 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 ‘Pics ...

, 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 the D ...

, 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. The Olympics played against man ...

, 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 Olympic ...

, 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