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manege

noun

manege is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of manège” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-N-E-G-E, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of manege is maneges or manèges.

What does manege mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of manège.

noun

as manège
  1. 1

    The art of training and riding horses; dressage.

  2. 2

    A riding school.

  3. 3

    UKA riding arena (enclosed, but usually unroofed area, in contradistinction to a riding hall).

  4. 4

    The movements of a trained horse.

  5. 5

    A series of steps performed in a circular pattern around the stage.

verb

as manège
  1. 1

    To train (a horse).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of manege

  • maneges plural
  • manèges plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • manèging participle, present
  • manèged participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is manege?

Manege appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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).

Manege in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmanège (art), manège m découvert (unroofed arena)
GermanDressierkunst, Reitkunst (art), Reitplatz, Reitbahn (unroofed arena), Reitschule (school)

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 manege come from?

From French manège; cognate with French manier. Doublet of manage.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).