coleo
Spanish, noun
coleo is spelled C-O-L-E-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish, the 160,355th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coleo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “synonym of coleadura” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of colear. With an accent, coleó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of colear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Deporte ecuestre de Venezuela, y de los llanos orientales colombianos, el cual consiste en derribar a un toro…”.
What does coleo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesynonym of coleadura
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of colear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of colear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Deporte ecuestre de Venezuela, y de los llanos orientales colombianos, el cual consiste en derribar a un toro agarrándolo por la cola –dentro de una manga de coleo– la mayor cantidad de veces durante una duración de 4 minutos.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of coleo
- coleos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to coleo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is coleo in Spanish?
coleo appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).