DCHP-1 Online
rodeo † < Am.E < Sp. "round up" 
n. an exhibition of skills in various activities associated with ranching, such as riding, roping, and bull-dogging, also offering chuckwagon races, a grandstand show, etc.
See also: stampede ((n.)) (def. 2)
- 1922 And with them they brought a quartet of rampageous young buckaroos who promptly turned our sedate homestead into a rodeo.
- 1962 Riding and roping competitions had been held at various territorial expositions throughout the West but it wasn't until 1912 that rodeo competition became a specialized commercial venture.
- 1922 And with them they brought a quartet of rampageous young buckaroos who promptly turned our sedate homestead into a rodeo.