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equitation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun equitation has 1 sense
- equitation(n = noun.act) horseback riding, riding - the sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements; Array has particulars: equestrian sport, pony-trekking
is a kind of athletics, sport
CIDE DICTIONARY
equitation, n. [L. equitatio, fr. equitare: cf. F. équitation.].
A riding, or the act of riding, on horseback; horsemanship. [1913 Webster]
"The pretender to equitation mounted."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
equitation, n. the art and practice of horsemanship and horse-riding.
Etymology
F {eacute}quitation or L equitatio f. equitare ride a horse f. eques equitis horseman f. equus horse
ROGET THESAURUS
equitation
Journey
N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.
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