hobby horse's Usage Examples:

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

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.

evenings of the first three days of May, and involves the hobby horse perambulating the port of Minehead.

Penglaz owes its origins to the descriptions of the hobby horse that once accompanied the Christmas guise dancers in their perambulation of Penzance during the nineteenth century.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Synonyms:

rocking horse, rocker, plaything, hobby, toy,

Antonyms:

natural object, refrain,