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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tpyo 2 points 3 days ago

Awww, she sounds darling. I absolutely love donkeys

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damnthefilibuster 20 points 4 days ago

Archery

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reallyzen 9 points 4 days ago

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PeriodicallyPedantic 10 points 3 days ago

Not quite a horse

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YiddishMcSquidish 3 points 4 days ago

Dudes will see this and be like "hell yeah!"

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reallyzen 2 points 3 days ago

It's straight out of Hexbear so indeed Hell Yeah

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TryingToBeGood 9 points 3 days ago

That’s actually a thing in some asian countries.

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magnetosphere 2 points 3 days ago

Cool. That takes a lot of skills at once.

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justdaveisfine 20 points 4 days ago

Texas Hold 'Em

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GraniteM 4 points 3 days ago

Five-card stud suddenly takes on a new meaning.

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SalamiDommie 1 point 3 days ago

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

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notsosure 20 points 4 days ago

hobby horsing

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Hossenfeffer 19 points 4 days ago

Ski jump, obv.

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slazer2au 15 points 4 days ago

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

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CameronDev 5 points 4 days ago

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

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tpyo 3 points 3 days ago

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

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Korhaka 3 points 4 days ago

Now that I would watch

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Vinylraupe 14 points 4 days ago

Skydiving.

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MimicJar 14 points 3 days ago

This thread is terrible, the obvious answer is surfing.

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user1234 14 points 4 days ago

Nascar

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DasFaultier 12 points 4 days ago

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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user1234 13 points 4 days ago

The horse is in the driver seat.

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Apeman42 9 points 4 days ago

I believe you just re-invented the chariot race.

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CazzoBuco 14 points 4 days ago

Most sports are worse when you add in animal cruelty imo

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EndlessNightmare 8 points 3 days ago

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

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thebestaquaman 0 points 2 days ago

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

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Leviathan 13 points 4 days ago

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

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massive_bereavement 8 points 4 days ago

I enjoy hockey, but I agree here.

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Onomatopoeia 1 point 4 days ago

I don't see anywhere that was said.

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WindyRebel 5 points 3 days ago

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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Leviathan 1 point 2 days ago

Is English your first language?

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Almacca 12 points 4 days ago

Greco-Roman wrestling.

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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 9 points 4 days ago

I wanna see a horse get suplexed.

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jaaake 8 points 4 days ago

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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 7 points 3 days ago

That's on the shirt I'm wearing right now.

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prettybunnys 5 points 4 days ago

I wanna see a horse DO a suplex

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betterdeadthanreddit 12 points 4 days ago

Curling, ice skating, synchronized swimming. It'd be hard to find a sport that wouldn't be improved by horses.

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SharkWeek 11 points 4 days ago

Roller derby

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GalacticGrapefruit 9 points 3 days ago

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.

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LaLuzDelSol 3 points 3 days ago

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

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LunarLoony 1 point 2 days ago

So what we're saying is: chess jousting

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plutopos 1 point 2 days ago

That one season of Yu-Gi-Oh where they rode motorbikes for no reason

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tsalpasnah 9 points 3 days ago

Pole dancing?

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billwashere 9 points 3 days ago

Water polo seems cruel to the horses.

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Vandalismo 5 points 3 days ago

Then we should hippos instead

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billwashere 5 points 3 days ago

So water polo with murder cows?

Sure I’d watch that.

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popekingjoe 1 point 3 days ago

Hey there Georgie.

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billwashere 1 point 3 days ago

I love me some George Carlin.

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BCsven 9 points 3 days ago

Polo is Croquet on Horseback

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billwashere 2 points 3 days ago

Um… 🤯

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cymor 9 points 4 days ago

Ice Dancing

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Cocodapuf 1 point 3 days ago

Underrated comment.

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OriginEnergySux 8 points 4 days ago

Extreme ironing - and yes it is a sport. WE WILL NOT BE MARGINALISED!

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20cello 8 points 4 days ago

Tennis

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massive_bereavement 9 points 4 days ago

Them poor horse knees.

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EndlessNightmare 7 points 3 days ago

Is your question implying that you think polo is better than hockey? No way!

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DeuxChevaux 7 points 4 days ago

Snooker.

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reallyzen 4 points 4 days ago

Ping-pong

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Quazatron 6 points 4 days ago

Synchronized swimming.

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Triumph 6 points 4 days ago

Bowling

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Summzashi 6 points 3 days ago

I vote paintball with horse armor.

Also the markers are mounted on the horse, turning them into agile paint tanks.

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ThatGuy46475 6 points 3 days ago

Rugby

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Cypher 6 points 4 days ago

Shooting. Preferably with an equestrian event style course. Would be rather entertaining I think but spectator seating would be…. Complicated.

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fatcat 6 points 4 days ago

does exist! https://en.wikipedia.org/...

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spicehoarder 6 points 3 days ago

Baseball

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SalamiDommie 3 points 3 days ago

Equine baseball would be awesome if the field was double the size. The speed involved in base running and outfield would be awesome

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FunStuffIsFun 1 point 3 days ago

You better not bean the horse.

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SalamiDommie 1 point 2 days ago

Imagine their strike zone.

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shaun 5 points 4 days ago

Hobby horsing

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massive_bereavement 3 points 4 days ago

That's just horsing around.

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thespcicifcocean 5 points 3 days ago

Taekwondo

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Test_Tickles 2 points 3 days ago

I read through all of these suggestions and up voted mom. But even after reading all the others, yours still made me audibly chuckle.

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Archimedes 5 points 3 days ago

Ice hockey. I mean, ice polo. The fights would be wicked.

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Cocodapuf 4 points 3 days ago

Bobsledding.

"Feel the horses, feel the rhyme, get on up, it's bobsled time"

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reallyzen 4 points 4 days ago

Ice hockey

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Widdershins 3 points 3 days ago

Sumo wrestling

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TryingToBeGood 3 points 3 days 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.

Eta they call it bull sumo

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_deleted_ 3 points 4 days ago

Boxing
Cross country skiing
Gymnastics

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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 6 points 4 days ago

Gymnastics already has horses

a horse of course of course

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adarza 5 points 4 days ago

and then there's also this.

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

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zwerg 3 points 4 days ago

Gymnastics is dressage...

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CameronDev 4 points 4 days ago

Until dressage involves a backflip landing in the splits, they have a long way to go

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adarza 2 points a day ago

acrobatics on horseback is most definitely a thing. and it's absolutely crazy the stunts they can pull off.

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CameronDev 1 point 21 hours ago

Gonna have to see the backflip before you convince me :D

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LH0ezVT 1 point 4 days ago

KICKboxing. Obviously.

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AbouBenAdhem 3 points 4 days ago

Math Olympiads (if the horses had to answer the questions, like Clever Hans).

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MapleFawn 3 points 4 days ago

Fencing or pole jumping

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quill7513 6 points 4 days ago

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

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MapleFawn 2 points 4 days ago

I have? How so?

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quill7513 2 points 4 days ago

One is foot-pokeystick. The other is mounted-pokeystick

EDIT: I'm a moron

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RobotToaster 3 points 4 days ago

Archery

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Korhaka 10 points 4 days ago

Pretty sure horse archery is still done in Mongolia

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massive_bereavement 6 points 4 days ago

And in Japan.

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Norin 3 points 4 days ago

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.

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nickiwest 3 points 3 days ago

That was a major annual fundraising event at my extremely rural high school.

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magnetosphere 3 points 4 days ago

Baseball

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LunarLoony 2 points 2 days ago

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

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nightofmichelinstars 2 points 4 days ago

Baseball

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melsaskca 2 points 4 days ago

Diving. No...wait...they did that already.

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pdxfed 2 points 4 days ago

Politics

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SuiXi3D 3 points 4 days ago

I agree. A good jousting tournament in place of traditional votes would be great. Put up or shut up.

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Reverendender 2 points 4 days ago

Heliskiing

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NABDad 1 point 4 days ago

Chess.

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cymor 1 point 4 days ago

Bowling

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cymor 1 point 4 days ago

Baseball

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jdr 0 points 4 days ago

Cliff diving Trampoline Chess Laser tag Rugby

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