rodeo
/ˈrəʊdɪəʊ
/ /rə(ʊ)ˈdeɪəʊ /noun (plural rodeos)
1An exhibition or contest in which cowboys show their skill at riding broncos, roping calves, wrestling steers, etc. [as modifier]: a rodeo rider [mass noun]: calf-ropers are the whizz-kids of rodeo...
- Cade was moving towards the squeeze chute that restrained the cow while the injection was given, the same contraption Erin had seen rodeos use when cowboys mounted the steers.
- Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, it is the story of a range-hand and a rodeo cowboy who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection.
- May, who lives in a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, has for years conducted an illicit affair with a rodeo cowboy named Eddie.
1.1An exhibition or contest demonstrating other skills, such as motorcycle riding or canoeing: white-water rodeos usually last two or three days
2A round-up of cattle on a ranch for branding, counting, etc.
2.1An enclosure on a ranch in which cattle are rounded up for branding, counting, etc.
3 (also rodeo flip) (In snowboarding and surfing) an aerial manoeuvre combining a forward or backward flip with a rotation: a textbook backside rodeo...
- This opened the door for Boyd Easley who pipped Jon Olsson to the post in the finals with a difficult trick: switch rodeo 720 mute grab.
- Land more rodeo flips.
- You did the Frontside 540 Rodeo Flip, in '88.
verb (rodeos, rodeoing, rodeoed) [no object]
Compete in a rodeo: I either rodeoed, or went hunting or fishing...
- He spent his youth rodeoing, riding saddle and bareback broncs.
- The vintage black and white photographs tell the tales of the days when rough stock, rodeoing and breeding great horses ruled the way of life.
- I have great memories from those days, just singing all night long and rodeoing during the day and I like the rodeo group.
Phrases
not be someone's first rodeo (or not be someone's first time at the rodeo)
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Spanish, from rodear 'go round', based on Latin rotare 'rotate'.