Paris pictograms from the International Olympic Committee and historical pictograms from the Olympic Studies Centre. Text by Kelsey Ables. Story editing by Kendra Nichols. Photo editing by Jintak Han.

In the span of less than five minutes, three tireless performers managed to pose as pictograms from 50 disciplines spanning 41 Olympic sports, including basketball, skateboarding, and triathlon.

To see a list of all the sports and their pictograms for this year’s Olympics, courtesy of Olympics.com, click or tap here. For a look at pictograms from each Summer Olympics from 1968-2016 ...

What, do tell, is a "human pictogram performance"? It's kind of hard to describe, but you'll definitely want to see the video for yourself. In the span of less than five minutes, three tireless ...