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bull riding en · NOUN

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1. (uncountable, usually) A rodeo sport where a rider attempts to stay mounted on a bucking bull while the animal tries to buck off the rider.
   • The bull-riding came next. Down in the corral, by much prodding and pulling, a bull was dragged into the shute. 1922, Ross Santee, “The Payson Rodeo”, in The Century, volume 104, page 43:
   • Hooked after attending their first live event, they started going to about half of the PBR's regular-season bull ridings and attended each year's finals in Las Vegas. 2005, Josh Peter, Fried Twinkies, Buckle Bunnies, & Bull Riders, A Year Inside the Professional Bull Riders Tour:
   • 2) Join a amateur association(s). Going amateur is a great way to compete just on the weekends. Also there are many open rodeos and bull ridings to go to. 1996 October 11, Alex Wagenblast, “after hs-IA”, in rec.sport.rodeo (Usenet):
   • "As regards the explanation or meaning of the representation, Dr. Fabricius concludes that we might suppose that the man on the back of the bull should be regarded as a performer of feats of bull-riding, or a bull-tamer, who shows his skill by leaping on the back of the beast in wild career, just as in the well-known passage in the Iliad (XV. 679), the horse-tamer leaps from the back of one of the four galloping horses which he has yoked together, on to the back of another." 1885, Heinrich Schliemann, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Tiryns, The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns, the Results of the Latest Excavations, page 306:

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