Olympic games

The name says everything you need to know about them, they are games. Anybody that tries to tell you the athletes aren't there to play because they are the most skilled athletes in the world at their event doesn't know what they are talking about. No matter how competitive a game can get, no matter what is on the line, and no matter what record is broken, it is always going to be just a game, and nothing more. Good Will Hunting explained it, some people can just play at an instrument, Will could just play at equations, and athletes can just play at their sport. Of course it will require time, effort, training, and practice to play well, the same kind of dedication peole put toward their jobs, but it really is still just playing at the end of the day. Most people in the world don't clock in for a work day at a gym because it's not a work place, it's somewhere people go to practice or train at their talent, not their work.

Talent and work are not the same thing, which is why most people go to work, then they play on their time off if they do at all (sports, other things if they have a talent at anything). The Olympic Games are not leisure in the sense that most people have of leisure, they are not the same thing as vacation, they require more time, energy, effort, and dedication than vacation or leisure, but they are still games, and as long as they are games, the athletes in them are playing. Any time somebody starts calling anything called games or sports something else, or says that athletes or players are not playing, they are doing something else, is missing the point and calling things something other than what they are.

by The Original Agahnim July 26, 2021

Left Turn Olympics

Also known as the Daytona 500, NASCAR’s biggest day! Kind of cool to see, even if you're not a fan. Many go for the wrecks that you can experience without actually being in them. Food, beer and Merch are also a draw. People watching is as much fun as the race its self.

I went to the Left Turn Olympics to drink beer in the sun and see wrecks!

by Sonicbo0mz February 14, 2021

Olympic Decision

A decision of great importance that, nonetheless, gets delayed until the last reasonable moment.

Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, finally made the Olympic Decision to postpone the games until after the global pandemic.

by 1ijk April 23, 2020

Coerced Deconstruction Olympics

The weaponization of radical critique within anti-racist or activist circles, where people are coerced into performative deconstruction under threat of social or ideological exile.

“Bro showed up to the protest and next thing you know he’s crying during the Coerced Deconstruction Olympics because he didn’t use the right pronouns and forgot to say he benefits from colonialism.”

by Moonman743 June 12, 2025

ball tag olympics

The act of throwing your open testicles at you friends faces in a tournament league

Guys, I’m bored. Let’s go to the ball tag olympics!

by Bigdaddywithaflopper July 30, 2021

olympic expert

Someone who has no idea how the sport works but when the olympics are happening they turn into an expert in what sport they are watching

Becoming an Olympic expert

E.g:Someone watching diving
A:watching diving

B:yes
A:do you watch diving often

B: no
A: but why so suddenly you turn into an expert of diving
B: it just the olympics

by Klojarw July 29, 2024

Passing the Olympic Torch

When you're at the circle jerk and everyone changes from the right hand to the left (or vice versa)

A Paul Bunyan sat down next to me but thankfully there was a Passing the Olympic Torch

by Paulbunioned June 3, 2023