equestrianism
noun
equestrianism is a noun meaning “The art or sport of horseriding; the skill required for it” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-Q-U-E-S-T-R-I-A-N-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of equestrianism is equestrianisms.
What does equestrianism mean?
noun
- 1
The art or sport of horseriding; the skill required for it.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce equestrianism?
- General-American
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Knabrupt-equestrianism.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of equestrianism
- equestrianisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is equestrianism?
Equestrianism appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Equestrianism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the art or sport of riding horses:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | équitation |
| German | Reitsport, Pferdesport, Reiten |
| Portuguese | equitação |
| Spanish | hipismo, hípica |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does equestrianism come from?
From equestrian + -ism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).