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Riding activity
Answer for the clue "Riding activity ", 8 letters:
dressage
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Word definitions for dressage in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1936, from French dressage , from dresser "to train, drill" (see dress (v.)). Middle English had dress (v.) in the sense of "to train or break in" a horse or other animal (c.1400), but it died out.
Usage examples of dressage.
Sirlofty himself was a well-schooled cavalla horse, needing no drill in battle kicks or fancy dressage, but I was green to such things, and learned as much from my mount as I did from Sergeant Duril.
Sirlofty himself was a well-schooled cavalla horse, needing no drill in battle kicks or fancy dressage, but I was green to such things and learned as much from my mount as I did from Sergeant Duril.
Well, I did that, and dressage riding, which is a very gentle sport, and endurance riding, which is not.
Like Patton, von Wangenheim was an Olympian, winner of a gold medal in dressage at the 1936 games in Berlin.
He'd never presume to ride Jaime's Grand Prix dressage mountno one rode Sabre but Jaime, and Carey's less theoretical, more intuitive style of riding would make him a poor match for any upper-level dressage horsebut he'd taken to longeing the horse in a variety of careful exercise programs gleaned from Jaime's books, hoping to keep him decently fit during this long and unplanned layoff.
He'd never presume to ride Jaime's Grand Prix dressage mount—no one rode Sabre but Jaime, and Carey's less theoretical, more intuitive style of riding would make him a poor match for any upper-level dressage horse—but he'd taken to longeing the horse in a variety of careful exercise programs gleaned from Jaime's books, hoping to keep him decently fit during this long and unplanned layoff.
At a pre-arranged place she stopped Dev neatly in front of the judges, saluted, turned her horse, and immediately started the required pattern of dressage exercises which every Olympic competitor performed.
Every day there were novelty events the Army did a display of tent pegging, lady clowns did dressage.