Word of the week

Appears in 8 episodes, first in episode 36.

Every appearance

• Episode 102

  Explicitly skipped this week - Mel "Yeah, no word of the week. I seem to have remembered everything I meant to say... there is no official word for the week this week." Logged because the segment is referenced by name as a standing fixture, not because one was delivered.

• Episode 98

  Last week's challenge, the name for the garment sumo wrestlers wear. No listener answered, so Mel researched it herself: it is a mawashi (distinct from the pre-WWII fundoshi), can weigh over eight pounds, is up to two feet wide, and is emphatically not a nappy. Because listeners didn't play along, the hosts declare there is no word of the week set for next week.

• Episode 97

  Prompted by Heather's past sumo-wrestler costume, Scott names it on the spot - "I think we need a jingle for this segment now. Mel's word of the day" - and sets the question: what do you call the underpants sumo wrestlers wear? Listeners are asked to text Mel the answer.

• Episode 96

  Mel gropes for the term for the ratio of volunteering to runs and can't retrieve it ("There's my word of the week that I don't know what the hell I'm thinking of"); Scott turns it into the listener bit "we've got a word of the week for our listeners to guess". Played here as a running gag rather than a formally set-up segment.

• Episode 92

  Scott supplies the German for "go crazy" ahead of the parkrun Germany launch, "verrückt werden", and Mel names it: "Which is our word of the week for episode 92."

• Episode 90

  Prompted by "Whitfords Nodes", Mel nominates "node" as a possible word of the week and reports back that last week's word turned out to be "space hopper", which Scott still refuses to accept.

• Episode 38 - Tom Do Canto

  Scott's word is "equanimity", being mentally or emotionally stable under tension or strain, calmness, which he offers as a more flattering description of himself than "lazy and laid back". Mel defends laid-back as a Queensland virtue. Scott then floats abandoning the segment and turning the podcast into a true-crime whodunit instead.

• Episode 36 - Lucy Bartholomew

  Coined live in the closing seconds. After Melissa teases Scott for having looked up synonyms for "survey" and admits she had to look "perlustration" up in the dictionary, she suggests he teach everyone a new word every week; Scott agrees it can be how they finish the podcast, and declares the first word of the week: perlustration.