Definitions

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  • noun a goal game combining elements of polo, lacrosse, and netball played by teams of six players mounted on horseback and using a sponge rubber ball and a stick with a head like that of a cross and a handle and shaft like those of a polo stick

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Examples

  • ROSS SHEPHERD, AUSTRALIAN COACH: Well, I think that one of the things that most people comment about the polocrosse is the intensity, the speed, the action.

    unknown title 2009

  • Australians have also embraced foreign sports, but they have also invented some of their own, such as polocrosse, indoor cricket, touch football, surf life saving, and Australian football

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • During our seven nights we managed to squeeze in two sessions of highly competitive and addictive polocrosse - a cross between polo and lacrosse which involves lots of madcap dashing, wheeling, catching, and marking your opposite number like a limpet.

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011

  • They try to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to experience as many riding options as possible, including outrides through the bush and across vast open plains, cattle mustering, game viewing on horseback, swimming on horseback, polocrosse and Western games.

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011

  • Meanwhile, in Surfers Paradise, pig races were held at Evandale Parklands, alongside a rodeo, woodchopping, sheep-shearing, whip-cracking and a polocrosse display.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Meanwhile, in Surfers Paradise, pig races were held at Evandale Parklands, alongside a rodeo, woodchopping, sheep-shearing, whip-cracking and a polocrosse display.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Other events will include drill team performances, light horse driving, miniature horses, polocrosse exhibitions and demonstrations by 4-H members and Grier School students.

    Penn State Live 2010

  • Other events will include drill team performances, light horse driving, miniature horses, polocrosse exhibitions and demonstrations by 4-H members and Grier School students.

    Penn State Live 2010

  • Meanwhile, in Surfers Paradise, pig races were held at Evandale Parklands, alongside a rodeo, woodchopping, sheep-shearing, whip-cracking and a polocrosse display.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • They were pony clubbers at that stage and goodness me, they've gone on to play really top polocrosse.

    unknown title 2009

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