horse
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7.7
- noun
- /hɔrs/
:
potro
- A tattered, paint-chipped rocking horse stood in lonely exile in the far back corner.
You have to get back up on that exercise horse.
- You have to get back up on that exercise horse.
Examples
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Judges score the horse and rider on smoothness, the number of rotations, and precision stops.
Academic text (1994) -
Certain he had done his duty, he hopped on his red and white rocking horse and headed west.
Fiction book (1990) -
That mother is an exercise horse.
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An old pommel horse just because.
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I wanna to buy Adele a rocking horse.
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During the gymnastics competition, the athletes took turns performing on the horse to showcase their skills.
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The coach emphasized the importance of practicing on the horse to improve pommel techniques.
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For her routine, she chose to incorporate difficult moves on the horse to impress the judges.
Synonyms
1
7.3
A gymnastics machine with two handles used for swinging and balancing moves
1
6.9
A long, solid piece of gymnastics equipment without handles that gymnasts run to and jump over
A padded piece of equipment with legs that people vault over to practice balance and jumping skills
A leather-covered round piece with two handles used by men in gymnastics
A long piece of gymnastics equipment like a bench that gymnasts run and jump over lengthwise
How Challenging
Surface Forms
Etymology
Horse in gymnastics, like the pommel horse, got its name because early gymnastic equipment looked like a padded back to vault over, so gymnasts jumped over it as if they were vaulting a real horse.