Definitions
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- noun sports, horses A sporting
competition where horses are ridden around a course consisting of severaljumps , to demonstrate the skill of both therider and thehorse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun riding horses in competitions over set courses to demonstrate skill in jumping over obstacles
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Examples
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The showjumping was the only event to carry over to two days, with the BSJA running classes for seniors and juniors.
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Great Britain have lost a third elite showjumping horse for the London Olympics with the sale of Guy Williams's Titus.
Great Britain showjumping team loses third horse for London Olympics 2012
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By 12, Taylor was a full-fledged star after headlining the hit National Velvet, in which she starred as a young girl training her showjumping horse for the Grand National.
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British showjumping team manager Rob Hoekstra said: It's disappointing but understandable to lose horses in this way.
Great Britain showjumping team loses third horse for London Olympics 2012
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Lesotho bid to be first black team in Olympic showjumping
Horsemen's Group draws line in the sand over prize money levels 2011
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Like many other modern sports such as cycling, tennis and football, showjumping has evolved to be part sport, part business and it has to be this way to enable our riders to compete at the top level.
Great Britain showjumping team loses third horse for London Olympics 2012
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Ben Maher gave British showjumping the perfect send-off towards London 2012 by claiming a stunning World Cup victory at Olympia.
Sport news in brief 2011
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The Great Britain showjumping team has lost a third horse for the London Olympics.
Great Britain showjumping team loses third horse for London Olympics 2012
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After all, people in the rarefied world of showjumping are quite happy to put up with horses named after conservatory companies.
Selling sport naming rights is just a load of old Cobras | Harry Pearson 2011
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Almost unbelievably, showjumping was also the sport where an unknown but large number of big-name trainers paid a hit man to electrocute their horses for the insurance money.
Yatima » 2009 » May 2009
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