'''กีฬาโอลิมปิกโบราณ''' ({{lang-en|Ancient Olympic Games}}) การแข่งขันกีฬาโอลิมปิกสมัยโบราณนั้น แต่เดิมเป็นเทศกาลหรือการเฉลิมฉลองและบูชาเทพเจ้า[[ซุส]] มีการแข่งขันต่างๆ เช่น footrace การประกวดหอก และการแข่งขันมวยปล้ำได้เพิ่มเข้ามาในภายหลัง กีฬาโอลิมปิก (กรีกโบราณ: Ὀλύμπια, โอลิมเปีย, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] "โอลิมปิก"; ยังὈλυμπιάς, โอลิมเปีย, [7] [4] [5] [6] ] "the Olympiad")({{lang-grc|Ὀλύμπια}}, ''Olympia'',<ref name="perseus.tuft.edu">{{LSJ|*)olu/mpia|Ὀλύμπια|ref|mLSJ}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = 15-04-16 Χαιρετισμός των Υπουργών Ν.Φίλη και Α.Μπαλτά για την Παγκόσμια Ημέρα Μνημείων και Τοποθεσιών |url = https://www.minedu.gov.gr/eidiseis/19760-15-04-16-xairetismos-ton-ypourgon-n-fili-kai-a-mpalta-gia-tin-pagkosmia-imera-mnimeion-kai-topothesion |website = Greek ministry of Education Research and Religious affairs |quote = Πανελλήνια συμμετοχή είχαν: τα Ολύμπια, που διεξάγονταν κάθε τέσσερα χρόνια στην Αρχαία Ολυμπία προς τιμήν του Διός |url-status = live |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160924205742/https://www.minedu.gov.gr/eidiseis/19760-15-04-16-xairetismos-ton-ypourgon-n-fili-kai-a-mpalta-gia-tin-pagkosmia-imera-mnimeion-kai-topothesion |archivedate = 24 September 2016 |df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="VALPY1832">{{cite book |author = Francis Edward Jackson VALPY |title = Second Greek Delectus; or, new Analecta Minora ... With English notes, and a copious Greek and English lexicon, etc |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=3xdgAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA135 |year = 1832 |page = 1 |url-status = live |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20171115124102/https://books.google.com/books?id=3xdgAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA135 |archivedate = 15 November 2017 |df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="Dutch dictionary">{{cite book |title = Grieksch leesboek voor eerstbeginnenden: ingerigt ten dienste der Hollandsche jeugd |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=e5JfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA248 |year = 1811 |publisher = H.C.A. Thieme |page = 248 |url-status = live |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20171115124102/https://books.google.com/books?id=e5JfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA248 |archivedate = 15 November 2017 |df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="Cary1843" /><ref name="Sturz1818">{{cite book |author = Fridericus Gulielmus Sturz |title = Etymologicum graciae linguae Gudianum et alia grammaticorum scripta e codicibus manuscriptis nunc primum edita Accedunt notae ad Aymologicion magnum ineditae E. H. Barkeri, Innr. Bekkeri, Lud. Kulencampii, Amad. Peyronialiorumque |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Vm5dAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA371 |year = 1818 |publisher = Weigel |page = 371 |url-status = live |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20161223161821/https://books.google.com/books?id=Vm5dAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA371 |archivedate = 23 December 2016 |df = dmy-all }}</ref> "the Olympics"; also {{lang|grc|Ὀλυμπιάς}}, {{lang|grc-Latn|Olympias}},<ref name="Middle Liddell">{{LSJ|*o)lumpia/s|Ὀλυμπιάς|shortref|mLSJ}}.</ref><ref name="Dutch dictionary" /><ref name="Cary1843">{{cite book |author = Henry Cary |title = A Lexicon to Herodotus, Greek and English, Adapted to the Text of Grisford and Bachr |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=okg2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT279 |year = 1843 |publisher = J. Vincent and |page = 279 |url-status = live |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20171115124102/https://books.google.com/books?id=okg2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT279 |archivedate = 15 November 2017 |df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="Sturz1818" /> "the Olympiad")