David Lammy

The great thing about running is that so often you wake up and you think: 'I really don't feel like this.' And even when you're up and out, that first kilometre is tough. But then once you get to 3km and you're getting to the end of the run, it's really fantastic.

British Politician

Clara Hughes

I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

Canadian Athlete

Ant Middleton

I might wake up in the morning and go out for a six- to eight-mile run, and then in the afternoon, I might swim two or three kilometres. The next day, I'll mix it up and do a military circuit. I don't stick to a set programme.

English Soldier

Beauden Barrett

I live in Wellington now but I love going back to the farm where all you can hear are the cows or the sea crashing in about a kilometre away. Our uncle's farm is on the beach and we are one up from that towards the mountain.

New Zealander Athlete

Frei Otto

Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?

German Architect

Ahmed Zewail

It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them; the fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations, and this speed is about a kilometre per second.

Egyptian Scientist

Valentina Tereshkova

It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.

Russian Astronaut

Chloe Esposito

I know everyone thinks Dad is a little bit crazy with his training, because we train a lot harder and do more kilometres and stuff than most pentathletes. Training is full-on. It's seven or eight hours a day.

Australian Athlete

Deborah Mailman

I grew up with horses and cattle, running around on dirt hills with this real sense of space. We didn't have neighbours - well, the nearest ones were kilometres away.

Australian Actress

Anthony Albanese

Australian seafarers make an important contribution to national security in a country with thousands of kilometres of uninhabited coastline.

Australian Politician

Often used with other units to describe area or speed.

Measurement Units

Combined with 'milli-', 'centi-', 'deci-' to indicate fractions of a kilometre.

Common Prefixes

Used to express distances between locations in many countries.

Geographical Context

 These rhinos are going to go to a farm, which is probably about 200 kilometres away, but it is dirt road, so, it's going to take us about three, three and a half hours to get there. On game, especially rhino, we'll escort the animals all the way to the farm. I think it's really important for rhino. They're special animals.

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 high-temperature geothermal fields; regions hotter than 180 degrees and typically several kilometres underground. These high temperature zones are hard to find, and drilling this deep for just one of the several wells a plant will need

Iceland's secret power -...

 springs basically on the seafloor cut off from the sunlight down there for kilometres at depth no sunlight incredible pressure quite cold and yet what they found was that life doesn't just exist at these hydrothermal vents life thrives

Solar System Exploration:...

 tear lines running from the inside of their eye down to the mouth these lines are thought to help protect cheetahs vision from glare and allow them to see fantastic distances of up to five kilometres this means they can see their

Cheetahs are Incredible...

 we felt that small we were one thousand kilometres from the nearest people but then was fine because we knew that we here we have nothing to say here the nature is the boss we just have to be careful and humble and do the right

To the North Pole in...

 them to obviously roar and call out as loud as possible and it's said it can even be heard up to seven kilometres away if the way there allows for it of course if there's winds bad weather other noise then of course the roars

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 groundwater from surrounding landscapes and move it across thousands of kilometres bringing it to our towns our cities and eventually all the way to the ocean they're an integral part of the world's hydrological cycle

Canada's Wild Rivers -...

 And then they fold their wings back and get this incredibly aerodynamic form before plummeting down, making them the fastest animal in the world. Travelling at speeds of more than 300 kilometres per hour.

Spotting the World's...

 kilometres west of Kabul its villas its structures from 1880 to 1930 were ground to dust it's Gardens have been destroyed we've restored everything and now it's a

A vision for the future...

 so many days so many kilometres I bet you you on me just one step at a time really but every step is important so I had this trick for my mind you know

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