The sport we know as triathlon is not necessarily called by the same name around the world. Here are the names for triathlon in many of the languages of the world. The names are taken from the Wikipedia page for triathlon in each of these languages. You will notice that many of the names appear to be the same or phonetic spelling of triathlon in the other languages.
Name by Language
Language | Name for the sport of triathlon |
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Afrikaans | Driekamp |
Arabic | سباق ثلاثي |
Armenian | Բազմամարտ |
Asturian | Triatlón |
Azerbaijani | Triatlon |
Basque | Triatloi |
Belarusian | Трыятлён |
Belarusian | Трыятлон |
Bulgarian | Триатлон |
Cantonese | 三項鐵人 |
Catalan | Triatló |
Chinese | 三项全能 |
Croatian | Triatlon |
Czech | Triatlon |
Danish | Triatlon |
Dutch | Triatlon |
English | Triathlon |
Esperanto | Triatlono |
Estonian | Triatlon |
Finnish | Triathlon |
French | Triathlon |
Galician | Tríatlon |
Georgian | ტრიათლონი |
German | Triathlon |
Greek | Τρίαθλο |
Hebrew | טריאתלון |
Hindi | ट्रायथलन |
Hungarian | Triatlon |
Icelandic | Þríþraut |
Ido | Triatlono |
Indonesian | Trilomba |
Italian | Triathlon |
Japanese | トライアスロン |
Korean | 트라이애슬론 |
Latvian | Triatlons |
Limburgish | Triatlon |
Lithuanian | Triatlonas |
Luxembourgish | Triathlon |
Macedonian | Триатлон |
Malay | Triatlon |
Malayalam | ട്രയത്ലോൺ |
Min Nan | Saⁿ-hāng thih-lâng |
Norwegian | Triatlon |
Occitan | Triatlon |
Palatine German | Triathlon |
Persian | ورزش سهگانه |
Polish | Triathlon |
Portuguese | Triatlo |
Romanian | Triatlon |
Russian | Триатлон |
Scots | Triathlon |
Serbian | Триатлон |
Sicilian | Triathlon |
Sinhalese | තුන් ප්රයාමය |
Slovak | Triatlon |
Spanish | Triatlón |
Swedish | Triathlon |
Tajik | Варзиши сегона |
Tamil | நெடுமுப்போட்டி |
Thai | ไตรกีฬา |
Turkish | Triatlon |
Ukrainian | Тріатлон |
Venetian | Triathlon |
Vietnamese | Ba môn phối hợp |
Welsh | Triathlon |
Wu | 三项全能 |