hobby horse's Usage Examples:

The term 'hobby horse' is used, principally by folklorists, to refer to the costumed characters that feature in some traditional seasonal customs, processions.

A hobby horse (or hobby-horse) is a child's toy horse.

Children played at riding a wooden hobby horse made of a straight stick with a small horse's head.

A hobby horse is a costume or character involved in traditional customs such as the morris dance and mummers' play.

processions making their way around the town, each containing an eponymous hobby horse known as the 'Obby 'Oss.

Hobby horse polo (German: Steckenpferdpolo) is a mixed team sport played on hobby horses.

The modern version of the dance involves reindeer antlers, a hobby horse, Maid Marian, and a Fool.

breed is the origin of the term hobby horse.

A common Irish phrase associated with the term is "go get on your hobby horse", which is an idiom to complain.

folk custom on May Day entailing the parading of a brightly decorated hobby horse around the locality.

Wood used a child's hobby horse as model for Revere's horse.

hobby horse, 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.

by the summer of 1872 when Claude painted his five-year-old son on a hobby horse in the garden of the home the family rented in Argenteuil near Paris.

The tradition entailed the use of a hobby horse that is mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a.

which two Christmas hobby horse traditions, those of Old Tup and Old Horse, were performed.

When used in the wooing play, the hobby horse was always recorded.

The tradition entails the use of a hobby horse with a goat's head that is mounted on a pole and carried by an individual.

There is also a small racecourse here, for local amateur and hobby horse riders.

Synonyms:

rocking horse; rocker; plaything; hobby; toy;

Antonyms:

natural object; refrain;