Marathon (disambiguation)
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A marathon is a distance race of 26.2 miles. By extension, in general speech it's a lengthy, arduous or time-consuming undertaking.
Marathon may also refer to:
- Places
- Marathon, Greece (and the Battle of Marathon), after which the distance race was named
- Town of Marathon, New York
- Marathon, Texas
- Marathon, Florida
- Marathon, Ontario, Canada
- Marathon County, Wisconsin
- In computer games
- The Marathon Trilogy, a series of first-person shooters for the Macintosh produced by Bungie Software in the mid-1990s
- Marathon (computer game), the first in the trilogy (1994)
- Marathon 2: Durandal, the second in the trilogy (1995)
- Marathon Infinity, the third in the trilogy (1996)
- The Marathon Trilogy, a series of first-person shooters for the Macintosh produced by Bungie Software in the mid-1990s
- In confectionery
- Until 1990, the name in the United Kingdom for a Snickers bar
- Marathon (candy) (unrelated to the candy above) is a candy bar that was available in the US from 1973-1982
- In sports
- Club Deportivo Marathón, a Honduran soccer club
- Ski marathon
- Half marathon
- Marathon dancing
- In business
- Marathon Oil Corporation
- Marathon Petroleum Company, subsidiary of the above, formed by the former Marathon Ashland Petroleum, LLC
- Marathon Realty, the erstwhile realty and property management arm of Canadian Pacific International
- Marathon Coach, an Oregon based manufacturer of luxury Prevost bus conversions.
- Marathon, an automobile produced by the Checker Motors Company between 1961 and 1982. The best know use was as a taxicab.
- In entertainment
- Marathon (film), a Korean film
- Marathon (television), the sequential broadcast of a number of related television programs. See also Telethon.
- Marathon Production, a TV program production and distribution company
- Marathon Man, a novel later adapted into a movie starring Dustin Hoffman
- Marathon (album), an album from Carlos Santana
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