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.
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?
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?”
I wanna see two nerds trying to castle while riding at a full gallop, trying to juggle the board on the back of a saddle like a first-time dad trying to tell his wife to hold on until they get to the hospital.
You should check out chessboxing it's actually very entertaining
They dont actually fight and play chess at rhe same time, they alternate, but the whiplash is wild. And you've got high-level players completely shook making blunders cause they were fighting 30 seconds ago
Not horses, but there’s a version of bullfighting in japan which is basically just a couple of bulls pushing each other around. If all goes well, neither gets hurt.
121 Comments
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 61d
Water Polo
Klear@piefed.world · 44 pts · 61d
With seahorses.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 61d
That's a big seahorse.
Tiral@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 61d
Dude, they're self conscious. Not cool.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 61d
Chess without horses is just lacking something
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 61d
Swords would be a great addition too!
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 60d
Knights usually.
CameronDev@programming.dev · 22 pts · 61d
Diving. I'm still not convinced that this is real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_horse
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 61d
TIL
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 61d
It absolutely was. ☹️
tpyo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 61d
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 · 20 pts · 61d
hobby horsing
justdaveisfine@piefed.social · 20 pts · 61d
Texas Hold 'Em
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 60d
Five-card stud suddenly takes on a new meaning.
SalamiDommie@lemmus.org · 0 pts · 60d
I am now imagining Greg Raymer in a horse with matching reptile glasses
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 61d
Basketball
It kind of already exists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzkashi
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 61d
Oh, oh, let's have human basketball played with a goat carcass, we could call it Buzbasket.
tpyo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 61d
There's this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_basketball
RBWells@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 61d
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.
tpyo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 61d
Awww, she sounds darling. I absolutely love donkeys
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 61d
Archery
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 61d
That’s actually a thing in some asian countries.
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 2 pts · 61d
Cool. That takes a lot of skills at once.
reallyzen@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 61d
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 61d
Not quite a horse
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 61d
Dudes will see this and be like "hell yeah!"
reallyzen@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 61d
It's straight out of Hexbear so indeed Hell Yeah
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 19 pts · 61d
Ski jump, obv.
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 61d
Biathlon. Would love to see a horse fire a rifle.
CameronDev@programming.dev · 6 pts · 61d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_artillery
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 61d
Now that I would watch
tpyo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 61d
Damn, look at that thing go! Those bois are galloping, too
MimicJar@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 60d
This thread is terrible, the obvious answer is surfing.
Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 61d
Skydiving.
user1234@fedinsfw.app · 14 pts · 61d
Nascar
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 61d
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?
user1234@fedinsfw.app · 13 pts · 61d
The horse is in the driver seat.
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 61d
I believe you just re-invented the chariot race.
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app · 13 pts · 61d
I do not enjoy hockey, but let's not for a second pretend that Polo is better than hockey.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 8 pts · 61d
I enjoy hockey, but I agree here.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 61d
I don't see anywhere that was said.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 61d
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?”
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 59d
Is English your first language?
CazzoBuco@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 61d
Most sports are worse when you add in animal cruelty imo
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 61d
I'd argue that most equestrian sports would be better with bicycles. Bicycle polo is apparently a thing.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 59d
Horses are social animals that enjoy being active. I don't know where animal cruelty was mentioned here?
Almacca@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 61d
Greco-Roman wrestling.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 9 pts · 61d
I wanna see a horse get suplexed.
jaaake@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 61d
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 7 pts · 61d
That's on the shirt I'm wearing right now.
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 5 pts · 61d
I wanna see a horse DO a suplex
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 61d
Curling, ice skating, synchronized swimming. It'd be hard to find a sport that wouldn't be improved by horses.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 61d
tsalpasnah@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 60d
Pole dancing?
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 60d
Polo is Croquet on Horseback
billwashere@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 60d
Um… 🤯
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 61d
Chess.
I wanna see two nerds trying to castle while riding at a full gallop, trying to juggle the board on the back of a saddle like a first-time dad trying to tell his wife to hold on until they get to the hospital.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 60d
You should check out chessboxing it's actually very entertaining
They dont actually fight and play chess at rhe same time, they alternate, but the whiplash is wild. And you've got high-level players completely shook making blunders cause they were fighting 30 seconds ago
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 59d
So what we're saying is: chess jousting
plutopos@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 59d
That one season of Yu-Gi-Oh where they rode motorbikes for no reason
billwashere@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 60d
Water polo seems cruel to the horses.
Vandalismo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 60d
Then we should hippos instead
billwashere@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 60d
So water polo with murder cows?
Sure I’d watch that.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 60d
Hey there Georgie.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 60d
I love me some George Carlin.
cymor@midwest.social · 9 pts · 61d
Ice Dancing
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 60d
Underrated comment.
20cello@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 61d
Tennis
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 9 pts · 61d
Them poor horse knees.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 61d
Extreme ironing - and yes it is a sport. WE WILL NOT BE MARGINALISED!
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 61d
Is your question implying that you think polo is better than hockey? No way!
DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 61d
Snooker.
reallyzen@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 61d
Ping-pong
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 60d
Rugby
Triumph@fedia.io · 6 pts · 61d
Bowling
Quazatron@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 61d
Synchronized swimming.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 61d
Baseball
SalamiDommie@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 60d
Equine baseball would be awesome if the field was double the size. The speed involved in base running and outfield would be awesome
FunStuffIsFun@eviltoast.org · 1 pts · 60d
You better not bean the horse.
SalamiDommie@lemmus.org · 0 pts · 60d
Imagine their strike zone.
Cypher@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 61d
Shooting. Preferably with an equestrian event style course. Would be rather entertaining I think but spectator seating would be…. Complicated.
fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 61d
does exist! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_mounted_shooting
Summzashi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 60d
I vote paintball with horse armor.
Also the markers are mounted on the horse, turning them into agile paint tanks.
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 60d
Taekwondo
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 60d
I read through all of these suggestions and up voted many. But even after reading all the others, yours still made me audibly chuckle.
shaun@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 61d
Hobby horsing
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 3 pts · 61d
That's just horsing around.
Archimedes@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 60d
Ice hockey. I mean, ice polo. The fights would be wicked.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 60d
Bobsledding.
"Feel the horses, feel the rhyme, get on up, it's bobsled time"
reallyzen@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 61d
Ice hockey
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 61d
Sumo wrestling
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 61d
Not horses, but there’s a version of bullfighting in japan which is basically just a couple of bulls pushing each other around. If all goes well, neither gets hurt.
Eta they call it bull sumo
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 61d
Archery
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 61d
Pretty sure horse archery is still done in Mongolia
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 6 pts · 61d
And in Japan.
MapleFawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 61d
Fencing or pole jumping
quill7513@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 61d
Congratulations! You've re-engineered Jousting with that first one
EDIT: This is why I should't comment on things before I've had my coffee. Jousting, not Fencing
MapleFawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 61d
I have? How so?
quill7513@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 61d
One is foot-pokeystick. The other is mounted-pokeystick
EDIT: I'm a moron
_deleted_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 61d
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 6 pts · 61d
Gymnastics already has horses
adarza@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 61d
and then there's also this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_vaulting
zwerg@feddit.org · 3 pts · 61d
Gymnastics is dressage...
CameronDev@programming.dev · 4 pts · 61d
Until dressage involves a backflip landing in the splits, they have a long way to go
adarza@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 58d
acrobatics on horseback is most definitely a thing. and it's absolutely crazy the stunts they can pull off.
CameronDev@programming.dev · 1 pts · 58d
Gonna have to see the backflip before you convince me :D
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 61d
KICKboxing. Obviously.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 61d
Math Olympiads (if the horses had to answer the questions, like Clever Hans).
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 3 pts · 61d
Baseball
Norin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 61d
Donkey basketball is enough of a thing that I’ve seen it played multiple times with my own eyes.
Although it’s mostly for comedy rather than genuine sport.
nickiwest@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 61d
That was a major annual fundraising event at my extremely rural high school.
pdxfed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 61d
Politics
SuiXi3D@fedia.io · 3 pts · 61d
I agree. A good jousting tournament in place of traditional votes would be great. Put up or shut up.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 61d
Diving. No...wait...they did that already.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 59d
Supermarket Sweep, insofar as that can be considered a sport.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 61d
Heliskiing
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 61d
Baseball
sequestered@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
bowling
cymor@midwest.social · 1 pts · 61d
Baseball
cymor@midwest.social · 1 pts · 61d
Bowling
NABDad@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 61d
Chess.
jdr@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 61d
Cliff diving Trampoline Chess Laser tag Rugby