英和和英

名詞

bull riding (usually uncountable, plural bull ridings)

1. A rodeo sport where a rider attempts to stay mounted on a bucking bull while the animal tries to buck off the rider.
   • 1885, Heinrich Schliemann, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Tiryns, The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns, the Results of the Latest Excavations, page 306:

     "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."

   • 1922, Ross Santee, “The Payson Rodeo”, in The Century‎, volume 104, page 43:

     The bull-riding came next. Down in the corral, by much prodding and pulling, a bull was dragged into the shute.

   • 1996 October 11, Alex Wagenblast, “after hs-IA”, in rec.sport.rodeo‎ (Usenet):

     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.

   • 2005, Josh Peter, Fried Twinkies, Buckle Bunnies, & Bull Riders, A Year Inside the Professional Bull Riders Tour:

     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.