Buckjumping

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The action (of a horse) of aggressively attempting to buck a rider. Australia, uncountable

    "But, after a little preliminary buckjumping, Pyrrhus falsified his keeper′s prediction by behaving well and obediently."

  2. 2
    A rodeo event in which the rider attempts to stay in the saddle of a bucking horse for a set period. Australia, uncountable

    "The well-known Australian horse-play, called buckjumping, — the like of which I do not remember seeing in any other part of the world, — is not only very disagreeable but extremely dangerous even to the good horseman."

Etymology

From buck + jumping.

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