discobolus

British  

/ dɪsˈkɒbələs /

noun

1. (in classical Greece) a discus thrower

2. a statue of a discus thrower

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Etymology

Origin of discobolus

C18: from Latin, from Greek diskobolos, from diskos _discus + -bolos, from ballein to throw

Example Sentences

Jay Silvester turned discobolus as an eighth-grader: handed the discus of an older friend, he skimmed it 30 ft. into a pasture on his father's Tremonton, Utah. farm.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the Olympic games two summers ago, another Greek sculptor fashioned a discobolus, along more authentic lines, with models who knew all the facts and intricacies of discus-throwing.

From Time Magazine Archive

I infer from the attitude of Myron’s discobolus, as seen in our copies, that it was thrown without a preliminary run, and rather hurled standing.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.

The discobolus of Myron, reconstructed as it has been, and with the head made to face in the wrong direction, so they say, is a magnificent thing.

From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Leach, Henry

The golfer in the suggestion of grace and power, as in the models that have been cut of Harry Vardon at the top and end of his driving swing, reaches some way towards the discobolus.

From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Leach, Henry