Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The performance of an equestrian; horsemanship.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The art of riding horses; horsemanship.

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Examples

  • After dinner Cap, with Wool for a riding-master, took her first lesson in equestrianism.

    The Hidden Hand 1888

  • Small Talk will never know what business we might have gone into if we had been continually thrown off our childhood pony – but we're willing to wager it wouldn't have been a equestrianism.

    Lee Pearson: 'I sold my first pony. He's probably dog food now' 2011

  • My parents had bought him for me after my love of equestrianism grew way past the meticulous Breyer display on my bedroom shelf and into a serious commitment to competitive horseback riding.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • My parents had bought him for me after my love of equestrianism grew way past the meticulous Breyer display on my bedroom shelf and into a serious commitment to competitive horseback riding.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • My parents had bought him for me after my love of equestrianism grew way past the meticulous Breyer display on my bedroom shelf and into a serious commitment to competitive horseback riding.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • Elizabethan Special effects: jousting (yes the E's did still have jousting and other medival war games), equestrianism, archery, hurling.

    Winning and Losing Newmania 2008

  • Patrick Ralph Print, formerly chm, Brit Horse Society, for serv equestrianism.

    New Year honours list: Order of the British Empire, Officer 2010

  • It's also natural that the Mongols would take to this sport, for historically they are great horsemen and cyclocross is exactly like equestrianism except for the fact that it no way involves horses.

    The Flax of Life: Nü-Fred Look, Classic Fred Taste BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Younger, but still the rule is “never be seen walking;” and without the concluding paragraph the dramatic narrative that precedes would seem a little bit unfinished and pointless: with the explanation it floats, and we forgive “the archic man” his partiality to equestrianism, as later on we have to forgive him his Median get-up and artificiality generally, which again is contrary to the Xenophontine and the ideal Spartan spirit.

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • Her hobbies include equestrianism, snow boarding, hiking and traveling.

    Cherie (porn star) Cliff Pickover 2007

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