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gymkhana
- /d͡ʒɪmˈkɑnə/
Rhymes with -ɑːnə
Where it comes from
From Hindustani گیند خانہ (gendxānā) / गेंदख़ाना (gendxānā, “racquet court”), from گیند / गेंद (gend, “ball”) + خانہ / ख़ाना (xānā, “court”). Influenced by gymnastics and gymnasium.
noun gymkhanas
- A competition where riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes. 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.
- A place of public resort for athletic games, etc. 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.
- A meeting for such sports.
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Synonym of motorkhana.
Similar: motorkhana
- Any event, situation, etc., with a broad array of elements. 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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