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Highland games

Scottish games
Class type of: sports competition Q429399

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
recurring sporting event, tradition[3]
Country
United Kingdom[2]
Subclass of
sports competition[4]
Country of origin
Scotland[5]
Sport
tug of war, caber toss, stone put, weight throwing, sheaf toss, Scottish Backhold, Scottish hammer throw[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
🏷️ Also known as
en Highland games ar ألعاب المرتفعات cs Skotské hry fi Ylämaan kisat ja ハイランドゲームズ ko 하일랜드 게임 ms Sukan tanah tinggi ru Игры горцев uk Ігри горців zh 高地運動會
🔖 Identifiers · 17
VIAF cluster ID
239541959
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85060764
GND ID
4245913-8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
2006 Highland Games (4000821702).jpg ↗
BBC Things ID
09b6b6d6-1db7-4b39-9dba-df29c0bd0b38
Dictionary of Sydney ID
event/highland_gathering
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
sports/Highland-Games
FAST ID
956565
Freebase ID
/m/02wggl
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Highland_Games
J9U entity ID
987007560457505171
KBpedia ID
HighlandGamesEvent
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NL CR AUT ID
ph867753
Quora topic ID
Highland-Games
Topic's main category
Category:Highland games
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
455876
Yale LUX ID
group/a66d18c0-e55e-4b1c-8818-696ea3b56480

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🔗 Connections
Sport 4
tug of war, caber toss, weight throwing, sheaf toss
Has these parts 2
caber toss, sheaf toss
Country 1
United Kingdom
Country of origin 1
Scotland
Instance of 1
tradition
Subclass of 1
sports competition
Topic's main category 1
Category:Highland games
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Highland games
← FactGrid item ID 1
Kráľov Brod
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Summary

Highland games is a recurring sporting event[1].

Related Entities

Scotland United Kingdom

References

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → United Kingdom
    Subclass of → sports competition
    Sport → tug of war, caber toss, stone put +1
    Country of origin → Scotland
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007560457505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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