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William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for a variant of Ride a cock horse, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose. A hobby horse (or hobby-horse) is a child's toy horse. Children played at riding a wooden hobby horse made of a straight stick with a small horse's head (of wood or stuffed fabric), and perhaps reins, attached to one end.
Hobby horsing is a hobby with gymnastic elements which uses hobby horses, also known as stick horses. [1] [2] Movement sequences similar to those in show jumping or dressage are partly simulated in courses, without real horses being used. The participants predominantly use self-made hobby horses. [3] [4] [5]
From the term "hobby horse" came the expression "to ride one's hobby-horse", meaning "to follow a favourite pastime", and in turn, the modern sense of the term hobby. [58] The term is also connected to the draisine, a forerunner of the bicycle, invented by Baron Karl von Drais. In 1818, a London coach-maker named Denis Johnson began producing ...
Benjamin P. Jr. was described as the "self-styled 'inventor of the hobby horse'" [10] [11] and was issued a patent for an improved model of combined rocking horse and swing in 1873. [12] However, Jesse had patented what he called a hobby horse as shown in his 1859 patent application illustration. [13] 99 Cent Store advertisement including ...
Hobby horse (toy), a toy horse, consisting of a model of a horse's head attached to a stick; The Hobby Horse, the magazine of the Century Guild of Artists from 1886 to 1892; The Hobby Horse, a 1962 Australian television play; Irish Hobby, an extinct breed of horse; A 1972 band around Mary Hopkin; Dandy horse or hobby horse, an early form of bicycle
A rocking horse is a child's toy, usually shaped like a horse and mounted on rockers similar to a rocking chair. There are two sorts, the one where the horse part sits rigidly attached to a pair of curved rockers that are in contact with the ground, and a second sort, where the horse hangs on a rigid frame by iron straps the horse moves only ...
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