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Riding activity
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dressage
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n. 1 (context uncountable English) the schooling of a horse 2 (context uncountable English) an equestrian sport in which the horse and rider perform a test of specific movements in an arena, and are judged on the horse's obedience, acceptance of the bridle ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dressage ( or ; a French term, most commonly translated to mean "training") is a highly skilled form of riding performed in exhibition and competition, as well as an "art" sometimes pursued solely for the sake of mastery. As an equestrian sport defined ...
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.