buzkashin.

1956 D. N. Wilber Afghanistan xxiii. 441 Boz Kashi or Goat Wrestling..is described as very dangerous. A goat is beheaded and the body thrown into a ditch, from which it is to be taken to the goal by any one of several hundreds of swift-riding horsemen competing for the honor.

1959 E. Hunter Past Present 111 Although bushkashee is referred to as Afghanistan's national game, actually it is regional, for it is not played in the south and south-west.

1962 Listener 15 Feb. 312/2 Buz-Kashi is a vigorous sport of the nomad horsemen of central Asia, bearing something of the relation to polo that real tennis does to lawn tennis.

1973 J. Bronowski Ascent of Man ii. 82 There is played to this day in Afghanistan a game called Buz Kashi which comes from the kind of competitive riding that was carried on by the Mongols.

1984 Times 16 June 10/1 Buzkashi is a basic kind of game: between two posts set two miles apart, a dead goat is buried in the centre of a circle 10 yards across. The object is to rescue the goat, carry it round first one post and then the second, and finally to fling the carcass back into the circle.