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BARREL RIDING [3 records]

Record 1 2025-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surfing and Water-Skiing
CONT

Tube riding is a term used by surfers to describe riding well inside the curve or barrel of a finely-shaped breaking wave.

Key term(s)
  • tube-riding
  • barrel-riding

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ski nautique et surfing
DEF

Manœuvre qui consiste, pour un surfeur, à se faire recouvrir par la vague et à évoluer dans le cylindre qu'elle a formé.

OBS

tube : désignation et définition publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 15 décembre 2022.

Spanish

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Record 2 2018-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Contests (Recreation)
DEF

A contest of basic cowboy skills that is indigenous to the ranges of the Western United States and Canada.

OBS

The term "rodeo" comes from a Spanish word meaning "roundup", and the sport developed from the natural competitive urges of cowboys involved in mass roundups on the western plains. The principal events of rodeos today are bull riding, saddle bronc riding, bareback [bronc] riding, calf roping, and steer wrestling, with steer roping and team roping contests often added to the list. Many rodeos add some other popular events such as barrel riding(a slalom-like race for women on horseback around a number of barrels), wild-horse racing, and wild-cow milking contests essentially for the amusement of the audiences. Organized rodeos go back to the 19th century; the principal feature of Buffalo Bill Cody's famous Wild West show, which began in 1883, was the rodeo.

OBS

Canada. Rodeos are generally divided into 5 events: bareback bronc riding, saddle bronc riding, bull riding, calf roping, and steer wrestling.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Concours (Loisirs)
DEF

Fête qui coïncide avec le marquage du bétail où les cow-boys pratiquent divers tours d'adresse de leur métier.

OBS

États-Unis. Comporte : maîtriser une bête, se tenir sur un cheval sauvage, un bœuf, en se tenant d'une main, etc.

OBS

Canada. Habituellement, un rodéo comprend 5 épreuves : se maintenir sur un cheval sauvage sans selle, se maintenir sur un cheval sauvage avec selle, se maintenir sur un taureau sauvage, prendre un veau au lasso et terrasser un bouvillon.

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
CONT

Easily the most dangerous event in rodeo is bull riding. This is so because of the size and ferocity of the adversary. A rodeo bull can sometimes weigh over 2, 500 pounds(1, 130 kg) and nearly always weighs at least a ton. The most common bull used in rodeo is the Brahma,... No spurring or marking is required of the cowboy in bull riding. He holds on to a bull-rope that encircles the animal' s barrel and then is wrapped around the cowboy's hand. The only requirement is that the cowboy not touch anything with his free hand and that he stay aboard for the 10-second ride.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
CONT

La monte du taureau-buffle [...]. En présence : un fauve de 1 500 livres et un «chevaucheur» disposant, pour se tenir en équilibre, d'une corde passée autour de la futaille déchaînée. Figuration obligée : des clowns en habit de cirque. Ils détourneront l'attention du monstre quand le concurrent sera à terre.

Spanish

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