Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The art and practice of riding a horse.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or art of riding on horseback; horsemanship.
  • noun A ride on horseback.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A riding, or the act of riding, on horseback; horsemanship.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The art, practice or act of riding a horse; horsemanship.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin equitātiō, equitātiōn-, from equitāre, to ride horseback; see equitant.]

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Examples

  • As a child in France, Petit was already wire-walking to the beat of a different drummer – also teaching himself equitation, fencing, carpentry, rock-climbing, drama, drawing, and bullfighting.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008

  • Cameron had actually enjoyed poor Ridgeway's attempts to replicate the exercises undertaken by the athletes of ancient Greece, with the addition of equitation, for Ridgeway loved riding and there was nothing he could not ride.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • Carter said he would get me a five-gaited pony or an equitation horse when I learn to ride well enough.

    Terrific Tuesday with Jan Scarbrough:) Molly Daniels 2010

  • The students attended for two years, and were taught the “exercises and games of cavaliers,” in particular equitation, mounting, jumping, and trick riding.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • The younger men of the expedition were chiefly anxious to procure such horses as had been thoroughly trained, and could go through with ease and temper the manoeuvre of equitation, by which it was designed to render legitimate the movement which they had recourse to.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • But when you reflect on the battalions of fantasy writers whose entire knowledge of equitation derives from the overland movement tables in gaming rulebooks, you can easily see how it came about.

    Campbell’s Cream of Fantasy superversive 2006

  • Some less able horsemen met with various accidents; for though it was a proverb of the time, that nothing was so bold as a blind horse, yet from this mode of equitation, where neither horse nor rider saw the way he was going, some steeds were overthrown, others backed upon dangerous obstacles; and the bones of the cavaliers themselves suffered much more than would have been the case in an ordinary march.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • For too long, corporate America has completely controlled the globalization equitation, costing the average American dearly.

    Leo W. Gerard: Toxic Trade 2008

  • The students attended for two years, and were taught the “exercises and games of cavaliers,” in particular equitation, mounting, jumping, and trick riding.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Here I interposed and said to them: If you two were having an argument about equitation and what was the best way of riding, supposing that I knew the art myself, I should try to bring you to an agreement.

    Eryxias 2007

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