Marathon
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Marathon has multiple meanings
- Marathon (sport), an athletic event
- Marathon, Greece (and the Battle of Marathon), after which the sport was named
- Other places with the name
- Until 1990, the name in the United Kingdom for a Snickers bar
- The Marathon computer game
- Marathon Oil, an oil corporation
- Marathon Ashland Petroleum, an oil joint venture
- The Greek word (μάραθον) for fennel
- A television marathon where a number of episodes of a television series, or movies linked by a theme, are broadcast back to back. For example a station might have a Star Trek marathon or Robert De Niro marathon.