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- noun Plural form of
gymkhana .
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Examples
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Starting at age 11, she competed locally in barrel races and gymkhanas, which are country horse shows.
Yoga, Stretching Help Keep a Rider Fit Jen Murphy 2010
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The programme was presented byMark Nicholas looking more than ever like a posh country person who hassome kind of semi‑official feudal role – officiating at gymkhanas or creeping about behind the 14th Earl of Egham saying things like "indubitably".
Cricket fails the cool test even with disco umpires and crick-babes 2010
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They were never seen at district dances, or fêtes, or gymkhanas.
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Until now there had been plenty of entertaining certainly — gymkhanas and tennis tournaments, dances and dinner parties, calling and gossiping, amateur opera and church bazaars — but it had been a joyless and dutiful affair.
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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Garden fetes, school sports, gymkhanas -- he'd be there.
Favourite Dog Stories Herriot, James 1995
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We'd entered local gymkhanas, and booted the poor animals in pop-the - balloon races.
Hot Money Francis, Dick 1987
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The ladies she saw was to do with business, like, arranging bazaars and gymkhanas, if you know what I mean.
A Guilty Thing Surprised Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1970
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Hohenzollern metaphorically under the heel of Romanoff and actually in a comfortable villa in Chislehurst, the hero of all its tea parties and the judge of all its gymkhanas!
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various
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One or two successful mule gymkhanas were got up, and we also tried our hand at baseball, cricket, and paper chases, both mounted and on foot.
The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 David Douglas Ogilvie
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But it is as sports officer that he will be best remembered -- training the football or running teams, coaching the tug-of-war, organising cricket or baseball, or arranging mule gymkhanas or swimming matches.
The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 David Douglas Ogilvie
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