Definitions
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- noun games, sports A
team sport originating inCentral Asia , where the players, all onhorseback , try to place an animal carcass into a goal.
Etymologies
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Hours later, a suicide bomber detonated explosives in Faryab province, in the north, killing three people, including a child, who were watching a traditional Central Asian game called buzkashi.
Afghanistan civilian casualties spike; officials say 200 killed in 2-week period 2011
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Hours later, a suicide bomber detonated explosives in Faryab province, in the north, killing three people, including a child, who were watching a traditional Central Asian game called buzkashi.
Afghanistan civilian casualties spike; officials say 200 killed in 2-week period 2011
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The ancient sport of 'goat grabbing,' known as buzkashi, which involves riding on a horse to capture a goat carcass, is Afghanistan's national sport and has turned into a big business in the northern part of the country.
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One revolving around a sport called buzkashi that is played on horseback on the Mongolian steppes, involving a stuffed goat carcass.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local <B>By Douglas Brown</B><br><I> The Denver Post</I> 2009
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Omar Sobhani/Reuters Horsemen competed during a buzkashi game in Kabul on Thursday.
Asia in Pictures 2011
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She rode a buzkashi horse, fished in the Panjshir river, and was there when I became the first woman to mountainbike in Afghanistan.
Shannon Galpin: Jewelry in a War Zone? Shannon Galpin 2011
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She takes in a game of buzkashi and discovers that not all warlords are as scary as their name suggests.
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She rode a buzkashi horse, fished in the Panjshir river, and was there when I became the first woman to mountainbike in Afghanistan.
Shannon Galpin: Jewelry in a War Zone? Shannon Galpin 2011
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Filmmakers have used American and European government money to produce movies on everything from Afghan women prisoners to the region's unusual sport of buzkashi, under which players on horseback vie for possession of a dead goat.
This 'Jihadi' Is Armed With a Subversive Sense of Humor Dion Nissenbaum 2011
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The Afghan national sport of buzkashi is played between two teams of horsemen competing to throw a beheaded 30kg calf, goat, or sheep into a scoring circle.
Asia in Pictures 2011
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