Marathon (disambiguation)

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

Marathon may also refer to:

Places

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

Marathon Motor Works, producers of the Marathon automobile
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

Checker Marathon, an automobile produced by the Checker Motors Company from 1961 to 1982, frequently used as a taxicab
Handley Page Marathon, a British four-engined light transport aircraft
Heldeberg Marathon, an American powered parachute aircraft design
Mirage Marathon, an American home-built aircraft design

Curly Wurly, a candy bar that was available under the name "Marathon" in the US from 1973 to 1982
Snickers candy bar, marketed under the name "Marathon" in the United Kingdom and Ireland until 1990
Marathon, a typeface created by Rudolf Koch

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", an episode from the tenth season of the NBC series Law & Order

Marathon Trilogy, a series of first-person shooters for the Macintosh produced by Bungie Software 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)

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"