Olympic
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Olympic or Olympics may refer to:
In sports
Events
- Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896
- Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece between 776 BC and 393 AD
Clubs and teams
- Adelaide Olympic, a soccer club from Adelaide, South Australia
- 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
- El-Olympi, Olympic Football Club, Egypt
- 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 S.C., 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
- Fribourg Olympic, a Swiss professional basketball club based in Fribourg
- 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
In transportation
- Olympic Air, a Greek airline, successor two years Olympic Airlines
- Olympic Airlines, private a state run airline of Greece in the process of ceasing all operations and bit to Olympic Airways
- Olympic Aviatillon, a subsidiary of Greek flag-carrier Olympic Airways
- Olympic-class ocean liner, 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 1955 as Empress of Britain
- Olympic-class ferry, ferries under construction for the Washington State Ferries fleet
- Olympic Station, MTR station in Hong Kong
- Olympic Highway, New South Wales, Australia
- Olympic Boulevard (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia
- Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles), California, United States
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
- 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 Hong Kong
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
Other uses
- Olympic Paints & Stains, a brand belonging to PPG Industries
- Olympic College, Bremerton, Washington, United States
- Olympic High School (disambiguation), various US schools
- Olympic Milk, a Brand of Milk Produced by PZ Cussons in Africa
See also
- Olympia (disambiguation)
- Olympus (disambiguation)
- Olympiad
- Olympique
- Cotswold Olimpick Games, sports event held in England since 1612
- FK Olimpic, a football club from Bosnia and Herzegovina
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