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2. 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.

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. Abbots Bromley Horn Dance - Wikipedia

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   The earliest written record of a hobby-horse performance at Abbots Bromley dates to 1532 and the first mention of the reindeer horns is from 1686. Radiocarbon dating has shown that at least one of the horns dates to the eleventh century, though it is unknown how or when they came to Staffordshire or became associated with the dance.

5. Minehead Hobby Horse - Wikipedia

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   The custom takes place during the evenings of the first three days of May, and involves the hobby horse perambulating the port of Minehead. [1] The hobby horse measures eight feet in length and three feet in breadth, and consists of a frame covered in a cloth that has been painted with brightly coloured roundels and decorated with ribbons affixed along the top. [2]

6. Hobby Lobby's Pricing Scam Was Just Confirmed—And the ... - AOL

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   One Instagrammer confirmed that Hobby Lobby sells the same product for different prices. Hobby Lobby employees enter the chat with their insider insight. Hobby Lobby's Pricing Scam Was Just ...

7. Chaps - Wikipedia

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   Batwing chaps. Chaparreras or Chaps (/ tʃ æ p s, ʃ æ p s /) are a type of sturdy over-pants (overalls) or leggings of Mexican origin, made of leather, without a seat, made up of two separate legs that are fastened to the waist with straps or belt. They are worn over trousers and were originally intended for protecting the rider from the ...

8. Wooing Play - Wikipedia

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   The use of a hobby horse as part of the wooing play performance was found in a geographically restricted area around the mouth of the River Trent. [1] The use of the hobby horse in the play is not known in Nottinghamshire, although the area in which the wooing play was performed bordered the region in which two Christmas hobby horse traditions, those of Old Tup and Old Horse, were performed.

9. 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 ...