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showjumping

[ UK /ʃˈə‍ʊd‍ʒʌmpɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. riding horses in competitions over set courses to demonstrate skill in jumping over obstacles

How To Use showjumping In A Sentence

  • She narrowly missed out on gold to Pippa Funnell after knocking down a fence in the showjumping.
  • Lesotho bid to be first black team in Olympic showjumping Horsemen's Group draws line in the sand over prize money levels
  • Their novice dressage and showjumping teams have won through to the National Riding Club Championships.
  • Today it's showjumping from an aircraft hanger. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • One of Brazil's top equestrians, he was a member of the Brazilian showjumping team that won a bronze medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and another in 2000 in Sydney.
  • Modern pentathlon, which consists of shooting, fencing, swimming, showjumping and a 3,000m run, was designed for the Games as the test of a complete athlete.
  • Before then, all competitors rode expensive thoroughbreds more used to the refined atmosphere of eventing or the showjumping ring.
  • As an equine physiotherapist her world is horses and showjumping, not politics.
  • Ultimately the therapist's aim is to achieve a supple musculature allowing the horse to work in comfort and balance, whether that be in racing, showjumping, eventing, endurance riding, polo or dressage.
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