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Contents 1 The animal 2 Equipment 3 Music and musicians 4 Other people 5 Games 6 Other 7 Compound forms 8 See also //

The word horse has a number of uses:

The animal

• Horse, a large mammal domesticated for thousands of years. A member of the Equidae family
  • Also, the wild horse from which this animal evolved
  • Sometimes used to refer to a stallion, as opposed to a mare or a gelding
• Horse meat, the culinary name for meat cut from a horse
• A cavalry unit; sometimes part of the official name of a mounted regiment
• Horse worship, a pagan practice demonstrated in Europe in the Iron Age
• Horses in Warfare

Equipment

Items built roughly with a horse's silhouette such as:

• Vaulting horse in gymnastics
• Pommel horse in men's gymnastics
• Wooden horse, used in bondage
• Woodworking tools such as the sawhorse and shave horse

Music and musicians

• An Horse, an Australian folk/indie duet
• Band of Horses, an American indie rock band
• Horses (album), a 1975 album by Patti Smith
• Horse the Band, an American experimental hardcore band
• Horse (musician) (born 1958), a Scottish musician

Other people

• Crazy Horse, Lakota leader
• George Horse-Capture, Native American writer and anthropologist
• Many Horses, an Oglala Sioux spiritual leader
• Chief Yellow Horse (1898-1964), the first full-blooded Native American to play in the Major Leagues

Games

• H-O-R-S-E, a game played with a basketball
  • NBA All-Star Weekend H–O–R–S–E Competition
• Slang for a starting pitcher in baseball
• An informal name for the knight in the game of chess; its equivalent is the only common name in various languages
• HORSE, a form of poker

Other

• Horse (film), 1965 experimental film by Andy Warhol
• In the Vodou faith, a "horse" is a ritualist who is possessed by a spirit known as a Loa
• Slang for heroin
• Horse (zodiac), a zodiac sign in Chinese astrology
• The Yakolev Yak-24 Horse, a Soviet transport helicopter
• The Horse is slang for Kicking Horse Mountain Resort
• Trojan Horse, a military tactic described in Virgil's Aeneid

Compound forms

• Geologic horse, a technical term in structural geology
• "Iron horse", an archaic term for a locomotive
• Horsepower, a measure of power in physics

See also

• Trojan Horse (disambiguation)
• Wikipedia:HORSE

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