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A gymkhana is a sporting day where people on horses — often children on ponies — race, jump, and play riding games. It is more of a fun competition than a grand race meeting. You will hear this word in Britain and in other Commonwealth countries. Though actually, the word has a wider life than that. In parts of South Asia a gymkhana can mean a sports club or a sports meeting, not only horses. In some places people even use it for a driving test of skill in a car. The sense a ’s dictionary usually wants, though, is the horse event. The word did not start from gym. It comes from a Hindustani word for a ball court. English later shaped the spelling so it looks like gymnastics. That look is a bit of a trick.
馬術競技會
組成From Hindustani gend (“ball”) + khana (“court” / “house”). English later reshaped the word under the influence of gymnastics and gymnasium.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gymkhananoun/d͡ʒɪmˈkɑnə/
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equestrianismhobbieshorsesA competition where riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes.
- In the afternoon the British held athletic sports, an impromptu military tournament, and a gymkhana, all of which caused much merriment and diversion, and the Boers profited by the cessation of the shell fire to shovel away at their trenches.
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datedA place of public resort for athletic games, etc.
- These privileged gentlemen have a fine club on the Fateh Maidan, a suburb of Hyderabad city, and they enjoy sports and races at the local gymkhana, in fact, they have a very good time, if one may judge by their appearance.
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datedA meeting for such sports.
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hobbieslifestylemotor-racingSynonym of motorkhana.
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Any event, situation, etc., with a broad array of elements.
- There was argument, public, private, and bar-parlor, with heated championship of one term or another on near-scientific, quasi-etymological, and a number of other grounds, but gradually one term began to dominate this philological gymkhana.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。