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UK
/dʒɪmkhˈɑːnɐ/
]
NOUN
- a meet at which riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes
How To Use gymkhana In A Sentence
- Here they will receive horse ridding lessons and see a mini gymkhana.
- Yes indeed I enjoyed horses vicariously and occasionally even pretended to be Jill and set up a few jumps in the garden and did a bit of giddy-up neddy trotting around my own gymkhana. Such stuff as dreams are made on...
- Used mainly as cavalry horses, the walers also excelled as mounts at polo, race meetings, and gymkhanas.
- For younger riders there is mini-jumping and a gymkhana.
- The motor gymkhana events, which are held under floodlights, are the ‘zig zag’ event where in you have to snake across a series of barriers as quickly as possible and clock the best time.
- Heavy rain in the afternoon kept the attendance down but the weather improved later and the gymkhana in the evening proved a great attraction.
- In order to get affiliation to the Indian Board, the leading Gymkhanas in Bombay decided to form a cricket association in 1930 and named it as the Bombay Presidency (Proper) Cricket Association.
- They also attended race meetings as well as riding to hounds and in gymkhanas. Times, Sunday Times
- Emily only began serious dressage competition under strict British Dressage rules in January after some success at gymkhanas and country shows.
- Paradoxically, it is because Madras has an old and lively sporting culture rooted in clubs and gymkhanas, that its middle class sporting establishment resists the idea that money should be used to buy talent.