A marathon is a foot race for humans for a distance of .

Marathon also may refer to:

Places

Australia

  • Marathon, Queensland

Bahamas

  • Marathon (Bahamas Parliament constituency)

Canada

  • Marathon, Ontario

Greece

  • Marathon, Greece, after which the distance race was named
  • Battle of Marathon
  • Lake Marathon, 8 km west of the town
  • Marathon Dam, forming the lake

United States

  • Marathon, Florida
  • Marathon, Iowa
  • Marathon Township, Michigan
  • Marathon, New York
  • Marathon (village), New York
  • Marathon, Ohio
  • Marathon, Texas
  • Marathon, Wisconsin, town
  • Marathon County, Wisconsin
  • Marathon City, Wisconsin

Sports

  • Mini marathon
  • Half marathon
  • Ultramarathon
  • Marathon dancing
  • Marathon swimming
  • Ski marathon
  • Ice skating marathon
  • Club Deportivo Marathón, a Honduran soccer club
  • The Marathon (horse race), a horse race in the United States

Businesses

  • Marathon Airlines, a Greek airline
  • Marathon Enterprises, Inc., maker of Sabrett hot dogs
  • Marathon Motor Works, producers of the Marathon automobile
  • Marathon (automobile), vehicles manufactured by Marathon 1911–1914
  • Marathon Oil, a US-based oil and natural gas exploration and production company
  • Marathon Petroleum, a US-based oil refining, marketing, and pipeline transport company.
  • Marathon Sports, an Ecuadorian-based athletic company that distributes athletic equipment to sports teams
  • Automobiles Marathon, a French manufacturer of Panhard powered light sports cars in the 1950s
  • Marathon Automated Test Systems, a system for automated testing of printed circuit boards from Computer Automation

Candy

  • Marathon candy bar, a Mars' rival to Curly Wurly in the US from 1973 to 1982
  • Snickers candy bar, marketed under the name "Marathon" in the United Kingdom and Ireland until 1990

Entertainment

Film and television

  • Marathon Production, a TV production company
  • The Marathon (film), a 1919 film starring Harold Lloyd
  • Maratón (film), a 1968 Czechoslovak war film directed by Ivo Novák
  • Marathon (1980 film), a film starring Dick Gautier.
  • Marathon (1988 film), a sport-drama film directed by Terence Young
  • Marathon (1992 film), a Spanish film about the Barcelona Olympics directed by Carlos Saura
  • Marathon (2005 film), a South Korean film about an autistic marathon runner
  • Marathon (media), the sequential broadcast of a number of related media programs
  • Marathon Media a French production company and animation studio in Paris
  • Movie marathon, viewing of multiple consecutive movies
  • "Marathon" (Law & Order), an episode of Law & Order
  • "Marathon" (The Flash), an episode of The Flash

Video games

  • Marathon (series), a video game series for Macintosh by Bungie
  • Marathon (1994 video game), the first in the series (1994)
  • Marathon 2: Durandal, the second in the series (1995)
  • Marathon Infinity, the third in the series (1996)
  • Marathon (2026 video game), a soft reboot of the original series and the fourth game overall

Music

  • Dance Marathon, a type of multi-day charity event, popular in the US in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Maratone Studios, a music production company based in Sweden
  • Sgt. Peppercorn's Marathon, an annual live concert of all of the music of The Beatles
  • The Vibrations, an R&B group whose alter ego was "The Marathons"

Albums

  • The Marathon (mixtape), by American rapper Nispey Hussle
  • Marathon (Saga album)
  • Marathon (Santana album), by Carlos Santana
  • Maraton (album), by Swedish singer Alina Devecerski

Songs

  • "Marathon" (Rush song), from the album Power Windows
  • "Marathon", by August Burns Red from the album Found in Far Away Places (deluxe edition)
  • "Marathon", by Dilated Peoples from the album Neighborhood Watch
  • "Marathon", by Helene Fischer on the 2013 album Farbenspiel
  • "Marathon", by Kayo Dot from the album Choirs of the Eye
  • "Marathon", by Tennis from the album Cape Dory

Vehicles

  • Checker Marathon, an automobile model from Checker Motors Company
  • Aircraft:
  • Handley Page Marathon, British four-engined light transport
  • Heldeberg Marathon, American design for powered parachute
  • Mirage Marathon, American home-built aircraft design
  • Ships:
  • SS Marathon, an early 20th century steamship

Other uses

  • A typeface created by Rudolf Koch
  • A container orchestration system that is part of Apache Mesos

See also

  • Maraton (disambiguation)
  • Marathon Man (disambiguation)

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