Marathon (disambiguation)

A marathon is a foot race for humans for a distance of 42.195 kilometres (26.219 mi).

Marathon also may refer to:

Places

In Australia

• Marathon, Queensland

In Canada

• Marathon, Ontario

In 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

In the United States

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

In 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 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

Vehicles

• Checker Marathon, 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

Candy

• Marathon candy bar, 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 program production and distribution company
• The Marathon (film), a 1919 film starring Harold Lloyd
• Maratón (film), 1968 Czechoslovak war film directed by Ivo Novák
• 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 Trilogy, a series of first-person shooters for the Macintosh produced by Bungie in the mid-1990s
  • Marathon (video game), the first in the trilogy (1994)
  • Marathon 2: Durandal, the second in the trilogy (1995)
  • Marathon Infinity, the third in the trilogy (1996)

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
• 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 Tennis from the album Cape Dory
• "Marathon", by Kayo Dot from the album Choirs of the Eye
• "Marathon", by Dilated Peoples from the album Neighborhood Watch

Other

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

See also

• Maraton (disambiguation)
• Marathon Man (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Marathon