This article is about the costumed character. For the children's toy, see Hobby horse (toy). For other uses, see Hobby horse (disambiguation).
In folklore, a hobby horse is a costumed character that features in some traditional seasonal customs, processions and similar observances around the world. In England, they are particularly associated with May Day celebrations, mummers' plays and the Morris dance.
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In folklore, a hobbyhorse is a costumed character that features in some traditional seasonal customs, processions and similar observances around the...
Hobbyhorsing is a pseudo hobby with gymnastic elements which uses hobbyhorses, also known as stick horses. Movement sequences similar to those in show...
rewarding. In the 16th century, the term "hobby" had the meaning of "small horse and pony". The term "hobbyhorse" was documented in a 1557 payment confirmation...
Hobbyhorse polo (German: Steckenpferdpolo) is a mixed team sport played on hobbyhorses. It is similar to other polo variants, such as canoe polo, cycle...
Summertime" / "Sweet and Low" was released on Bell Records under the name of HobbyHorse. The A-side was a cover of a 1958 song by the Jamies. With Visconti's...
folk custom on May Day entailing the parading of a brightly decorated hobbyhorse around the locality. The origins of the custom are unknown. The earliest...
Hobby is an extinct breed of horse developed in Ireland prior to the 13th century. The breed provided foundation bloodlines for several modern horse breeds...
The HobbyHorse was a quarterly Victorian periodical in England published by the Century Guild of Artists. The magazine ran from 1884 to 1894 and spanned...
draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, or swiftwalker, is a human-powered vehicle that, being the first means...
triangle. Six of the dancers carry reindeer horns; the remaining four are a hobbyhorse, Maid Marian, a fool, and a youth with a bow and arrow. On Wakes Monday...
South Wales. The tradition entails the use of an eponymous hobbyhorse which is made from a horse's skull mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden...
Expensive Hobby (1971–2003) was an outstanding Quarter Horse reining horse, working cowhorse, and cutting horse. Expensive Hobby was a 1971 buckskin gelding...
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Derbyshire, and part of Yorkshire. The tradition entails the use of a hobbyhorse that is mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a...
uncastrated horse. From the mid-sixteenth century it also meant a pretend hobbyhorse or an adult's knee. There is also an expression "a-cock-horse", meaning...
which two Christmas hobbyhorse traditions, those of Old Tup and Old Horse, were performed. When used in the wooing play, the hobbyhorse was always recorded...
[2] Archived May 1, 2013, at the Wayback Machine "Horse Show Apparel, Attire, Accessories". HobbyHorse Clothing Company, Inc. Retrieved 31 May 2015. J...
England during the nineteenth century. The tradition entailed the use of a hobbyhorse that is mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a...
displays strong similarities with the Old Horse custom, but in the latter the hobbyhorse was presented as a horse rather than a ram. As recorded from the...
successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine, nicknamed hobby-horse or dandy horse. Later, the name draisine came to be applied only to the invention...
hobbyhorse, and Spooner followed Robert Morton Nance in expressing the view that 'the May day games and Morris Dances, with their own type of hobby-horse...