gymkhana

gymkhana
\ \ [19] The British brought the word gymkhana back with them from India, where they found it as Hindi gendkhāna, literally ‘ballhouse’, the name given to a racket court. The first syllable gym- is generally assumed to be an alteration of gend- on the analogy of gymnasium.
\ \ The term was originally used for a ‘sports ground’; the current sense ‘horse-riding contest’ seems to have developed after World War I.

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