What's the difference between equestrian and horsewoman?
Equestrian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games.
(a.) Being or riding on horseback; mounted; as, an equestrian statue.
(a.) Belonging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order.
(n.) One who rides on horseback; a horseman; a rider.
Example Sentences:
(1) I visited with him two summers ago during a brief visit to Windsor as part of the Equestrian Games being held there.
(2) The torch began its day in Greenwich Park, where the equestrian events will take place, and progressed through the east London neighbourhoods that evangelists of the London Olympics believe will be regenerated by the £9.3bn in public money poured into the area It ended the day in Waltham Forest in the hands of Fabrice Muamba, the Bolton Wanderers footballer who suffered a heart attack on the pitch at White Hart Lane in March and was raised in the area.
(3) Penny Tyson-Davies, BHS bridleways officer for Mole Valley, said there had been no input from equestrians into the building of the trail.
(4) Last cancelled in 1987, the trials are one of the premier events on the equestrian calendar and results in dressage, cross-country and showjumping were expected to play a part in selection of British hopefuls for the Olympics.
(5) When the 65-year-old equestrian course builder saw a consultant within days of being referred, the doctor said: "Mr Ashford, you have bowel cancer," Williams-Ashford recalls.
(6) Other Paralympians who have voiced their concerns at the proposals include: Natasha Baker, equestrian "Disability living allowance enables disabled people another life.
(7) His original masterplan included two championship golf courses, with a five-star hotel, tower blocks of timeshare apartments, luxury villas, equestrian and tennis complexes, a golfing academy, and shopping village strung along a sweeping avenue called Trump Boulevard.
(8) The 24-year-old, from Maidenhead in Berkshire, who has cerebral palsy, also secured a British Paralympic record 11 medals in one Games for the equestrian team.
(9) This year's magical mystery tour wound a serpentine path through the birch forests outside Moscow, a discreet spot beloved by generations of secretive nomenklatura, until we arrived at the New Century Equestrian Club.
(10) In 2003, after being awarded the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem: Knight Commander with star, and serving as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, he was promoted by John Paul II, becoming only the third resident Scottish cardinal since the Reformation.
(11) Equestrian accidents were common early in the period and again towards the end.
(12) McCormick also bought his father a place in Florida, a £600,000 Sunseeker yacht called Aesthete, and three dressage horses for one of his daughters, who has ambitions of making the British equestrian team for the Olympics in Rio.
(13) The brusque, uncommunicative president she was hired to assist ("swathed in a whiskey mink, her eyes covered with enormous dark glasses, her head with a silk scarf in an equestrian pattern") was Phyllis Westberg.
(14) Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998 and with cancer in 2008, she has fought off both illnesses, crediting her symptom-free life from MS on conventional medicine and alternative treatments: a prize-winning equestrian, she says horse riding "saved my life".
(15) The equestrian course at the royal park is undergoing work to return it to public use.
(16) Pediatricians can play an active role in increasing public awareness of equestrian injuries and in reducing risk of injury.
(17) Clare Balding was the BBC's standout presenter of London 2012, so much so that you could be forgiven for thinking she anchored the entire Games, rather than the swimming and equestrian events.
(18) At the other extreme, equestrians had to contend with a warm, moderately humid environment, plus a solar load that added to the effective heat stress, while wearing clothing having clo values of nearly 0.8-0.9, plus headgear that limited evaporative heat loss.
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(20) • £945 for nine days, including all accommodation and most meals, skedaddle.co.uk Horse riding in Italy Facebook Twitter Pinterest Olympic equestrian events can be a little difficult to relate to at times.
Horsewoman
Definition:
(n.) A woman who rides on horseback.
Example Sentences:
(1) In terms of self-control – that is, trying to hold yourself like a horsewoman as opposed to looking like a marshmallow in the saddle – it's a mixture of pilates (in pelvic posture), line dancing (to match the rhythm of the horse), Alexander technique (sitting up straight), cycling (bracing your core, for balance) and Zumba (using your thighs to create some kind of movement).