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  2. Hobby horse (toy) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Hobby horse - Wikipedia

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    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. [59] 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 ...

  4. Dandy horse - Wikipedia

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    Wooden dandy horse (around 1820), a patent-infringing copy of the first two-wheeler Original Laufmaschine of 1817 made to measure.. The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine ("running machine" in German), then a vélocipède or draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, [1] or swiftwalker, [2] is a human-powered ...

  5. Hobby horse (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Hobby horsing - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. The Hobby Horse - Wikipedia

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    The Hobby Horse was "the first 1880s periodical to introduce the British Arts & Crafts viewpoint to a European audience and to treat printing as a serious design form." [ 6 ] The Hobby Horse was revolutionary- the printing techniques that were used were ahead of their time and were what helped art enter, survive and even flourish in the ...

  8. 'Obby 'Oss festival - Wikipedia

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    Minehead in Somerset also has two large hobby horses, the Sailors' Horse and the Town Horse. Although more pointed or boat-shaped than the Padstow 'Osses, they are similar in that the dancer within the costume wears a tall, conical hat with a grotesque mask over their face; the horse framework is suspended from the dancer's shoulders and a long ...

  9. Hobby horse polo - Wikipedia

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    Hobby horse polo (German: Steckenpferdpolo) is a mixed team sport played on hobby horses.It is similar to other polo variants, such as canoe polo, cycle polo, camel polo, elephant polo, golfcart polo, Segway polo, auto polo, and yak polo [citation needed] in that it uses the basic polo rules, but it has its own specialities.

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