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gazter@aussie.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 days ago

Polo is hockey on horseback. What other sports would be better with the addition of horses?

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Polo is hockey on horseback. What other sports would be better with the addition of horses?

gazter@aussie.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 days ago
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  • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 days ago

    Supermarket Sweep, insofar as that can be considered a sport.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    Water Polo

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      With seahorses.

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        That’s a big seahorse.

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          Dude, they’re self conscious. Not cool.

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    Chess without horses is just lacking something

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      Swords would be a great addition too!

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      7 days ago

      Knights usually.

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    Diving. I’m still not convinced that this is real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_horse

    • thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de
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      TIL

    • TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com
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      It absolutely was. ☹️

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        It was and it was horrible. Horses have been, and still are, incredibly mistreated and it’s sickening some practices that are still allowed today

        :( indeed

  • notsosure@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    hobby horsing

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    8 days ago

    Archery

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      That’s actually a thing in some asian countries.

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        Cool. That takes a lot of skills at once.

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      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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        Not quite a horse

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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        Dudes will see this and be like “hell yeah!”

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          It’s straight out of Hexbear so indeed Hell Yeah

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    Basketball

    It kind of already exists
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzkashi

    • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
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      Oh, oh, let’s have human basketball played with a goat carcass, we could call it Buzbasket.

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      There’s this:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_basketball

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        We knew a former basketball donkey named Barbara. She was so very sweet. We would stop to give her a carrot or apple, she was very used to people and very old.

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          Awww, she sounds darling. I absolutely love donkeys

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    Texas Hold 'Em

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      Five-card stud suddenly takes on a new meaning.

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      I am now imagining Greg Raymer in a horse with matching reptile glasses

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    Ski jump, obv.

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    Biathlon. Would love to see a horse fire a rifle.

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_artillery

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        Now that I would watch

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        Damn, look at that thing go! Those bois are galloping, too

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    Skydiving.

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    Nascar

    • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works
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      Does the horse ride along in the car with its head sticking out of the roof, or do multiple horses carry each car around the course? Or! Do horses pull a wagon with the car on it?

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        The horse is in the driver seat.

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      I believe you just re-invented the chariot race.

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    7 days ago

    This thread is terrible, the obvious answer is surfing.

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    Most sports are worse when you add in animal cruelty imo

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      Horses are social animals that enjoy being active. I don’t know where animal cruelty was mentioned here?

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      I’d argue that most equestrian sports would be better with bicycles. Bicycle polo is apparently a thing.

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    I do not enjoy hockey, but let’s not for a second pretend that Polo is better than hockey.

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      I enjoy hockey, but I agree here.

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      I don’t see anywhere that was said.

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        Is English your first language?

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        The title of this post can be inferred that is what was meant. Inference: “Hockey is great, but when you add horses and create polo then it’s better. What else is better?”

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