Meaning of gymkhana | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A competition where riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes.
2. A place of public resort for athletic games, etc.
   India, Myanmar, dated
3. A meeting for such sports.
   India, Myanmar, dated
4. Synonym of motorkhana.
5. Any event, situation, etc., with a broad array of elements.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“In the afternoon the British held athletic sports, an impromptu military tournament, and a gymkhana, all of which caused much merriment and diversion, and the Boers profited by the cessation of the shell fire to shovel away at their trenches.”

“These privileged gentlemen have⟳ a fine club on the Fateh Maidan, a suburb of Hyderabad city, and they enjoy⟳ sports and races at the local gymkhana, in fact, they have⟳ a very good time, if one may judge⟳ by their appearance.”

“There was argument, public, private, and bar-parlor, with heated championship of one term or another on near-scientific, quasi-etymological, and a number⟳ of other grounds, but gradually one term began to dominate this philological gymkhana.”

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