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Athletic-sounding series of equestrian events
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gymkhana
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gymkhana is a type of motorsport . Similar to autocross , the goal of gymkhana is to achieve the fastest time possible; memorizing the course is a significant part of achieving a fast time. The name is loaned from the equestrian discipline of gymkhana . ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At shows and jump their horses while the children gymkhana . ▪ Nor did he shuffle them around, as an almost annual political gymkhana , in the way that Harold Wilson did. ▪ We also have our own Autumn Shows where you draw your ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A competition where riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes.
Usage examples of gymkhana.
The gymkhana had already begun, and horses were dashing about all over the place.
Cha Cha Cha Road, near the roundabout that leads to Kafue, the Gymkhana Club, or home, depending on where you get off.
Leave behind the Gymkhana Club, where red-faced expats-like-us drink and shout their repeated stories to one another, cigarettes waving.
He saw me the first time I got drunk and had to go behind the Gymkhana Club to throw up in the bougainvillea.
Part of the afternoon-long festivities included some friendly competition among the cowboys, matching their skills in ranch-related events such as team roping, cutting cattle, tug-of-war on horseback, and breakaway roping, and in gymkhana events such as barrel racing and pole bending.
The pilot came in down the western pass under the cliffs, then turned steeply and side-slipped in towards the only piece of open ground in the valley that was free of rocks and oles- It was used as a stockyard, gymkhana ground or polo field as the need arose and at the moment the ankle-deep grass was providing grazing for fifty goats.
A box of old gymkhana awards going back to youth looked like they might be heading for an attic very soon.
Pop said and then remembered that the Bluff-Gores had a daughter - Rosemary, he thought her name was - a big puddeny girl with sour eyes and a blonde fringe, whom he had sometimes seen riding at meetings or pony gymkhanas with Mariette.
The ladies she saw was to do with business, 42 like, arranging bazaars and gymkhanas, if you know what I mean.
Half the kids you see pot-hunting at horse shows and gymkhanas are funded this way.
However, Guthrie Featherstone was a tall man, with a good calf in a silk stocking, and he took with him Marigold, his lady wife, who was young enough, and I suppose pretty enough, for Henry our junior clerk to eye wistfully, although she had the sort of voice that puts me instantly in mind of headscarves and gymkhanas, that high pitched nasal whining which a girl learns from too much contact with the saddle when young, and too little with the Timsons of this world in later life.
She understood this and between the icy sheets of her bed, surrounded by rosettes and silver cups and the photographs of her jumping her ponies at local gymkhanas, she was always especially and actively loving to make up for the Spartan nature of her home.
The ladies she saw was to do with business, 42 like, arranging bazaars and gymkhanas, if you know what I mean.
She understood this and between the icy sheets of her bed, surrounded by rosettes and silver cups and the photographs of her jumping her ponies at local gymkhanas, she was always especially and actively loving to make up for the Spartan nature of her home.