- Look up
equestrian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The word
equestrian is a
reference to
equestrianism, or
horseback riding,
derived from
Latin equester...
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Equestrianism (from
Latin equester, equestr-, equus, 'horseman', 'horse'),
commonly known as
horse riding (Commonwealth English) or
horseback riding (American...
- An
equestrian statue is a
statue of a
rider mounted on a horse, from the
Latin eques,
meaning 'knight',
deriving from equus,
meaning 'horse'. A statue...
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Equestrian sports are
sports that use
horses as a main part of the sport. This
usually takes the form of the
rider being on the horse's back, or the horses...
- of
ancient Rome,
ranking below the
senatorial class. A
member of the
equestrian order was
known as an
eques (Latin: [ˈɛ.kʷɛs]).
During the
Roman Kingdom...
- The
Equestrian Monument of Niccolò da
Tolentino (1456) is a
fresco painting by the early-Italian
Renaissance master Andrea del Castagno, in
Florence Cathedral...
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Equestrian vaulting, or
simply vaulting, is most
often described as
gymnastics and
dance on horseback,
which can be
practiced both
competitively or non-competitively...
- The
Equestrian Statue of
Marcus Aurelius (Italian:
statua equestre di
Marco Aurelio; Latin:
Equus Marci Aurelii) is an
ancient Roman equestrian statue...
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Equestrian sports were
first included in the
Olympic Games in the
Summer Olympics of 1900 in Paris. They were
again included in 1912, and have been included...
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pursued solely for the sake of mastery. As an
equestrian sport defined by the
International Equestrian Federation,
dressage is
described as "the highest...
