Definitions for gymkhanas

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gymkhanas gym·kha·na

Spelling: [jim-kah-nuh]

IPA: /dʒɪmˈkɑ nə/

Gymkhanas is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 278 anagrams from letters in gymkhanas (aaghkmnsy).

Definitions for gymkhanas

noun

1. a field day held for equestrians, consisting of exhibitions of horsemanship and much pageantry.
2. Also called autocross. a competition in which sports cars are timed as they travel on a closed, twisting course that requires much maneuvering.
3. any of various other sporting events, as a gymnastics exhibition or surfing contest.
4. a place where any such event is held.

Origin of gymkhanas

1860-65; Hindi gē̃dkhānā literally, ball-house (influenced by gymnastics)

Examples for gymkhanas

Or was the gymkhana momentarily the stronger magnet of the two?

The official people must all be at the Club and gymkhana, or at Church.

Despite the prevailing glumness, however, the populace turned out to patronise a gymkhana entertainment at the Light Horse camp.

"I believe we're going to get the £100 just by collecting, and that the gymkhana will be extra," said Bessie Manners exultingly.

The gymkhana represents the "compulsory games" of a public school.

Take me out and show me the place and the shops and the gymkhana—what do you call it here?

Even over the gymkhana programme, there had been an undercurrent of friction.

Directly after dinner we went in an open carriage to the ball at the gymkhana.

Now the gymkhana has been quadrupled in size, and far more than quadrupled in membership.

But thoughts so unsettling were out of place, in the midst of a gymkhana with the grand climax imminent.