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means A heavy, flat, circular object thrown for distance in a track-and-field event, or the sport of throwing it.

from Straight from Latin 'discus,' meaning a quoit or disk, borrowed in turn from Greek 'diskos' — from 'dikein,' to throw or cast. The same Latin word, taking different routes through the centuries, also gave us 'disk,' 'dish,' and 'desk,' so the athlete's spinning plate, your dinner plate, and your work desk are all distant relatives of one ancient thrown stone.