EQUITATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equitation mean? 

• EQUITATION (noun)
  The noun EQUITATION has 1 sense:

1. the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements

  Familiarity information: EQUITATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUITATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

equitation; horseback riding; riding

Hypernyms ("equitation" is a kind of...):

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Domain member category:

ride horseback (ride on horseback)

prance (ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward)

prance (cause (a horse) to bound spring forward)

canter (ride at a cantering pace)

gallop (ride at a galloping pace)

post (ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait)

extend; gallop (cause to move at full gallop)

trot (ride at a trot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "equitation"):

equestrian sport (a sport that tests horsemanship)

pony-trekking (a sport in which people ride across country on ponies)