Meanings
- AustraliauncountableThe action (of a horse) of aggressively attempting to buck a rider.
But, after a little preliminary buckjumping, Pyrrhus falsified his keeper′s prediction by behaving well and obediently.
1863, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, page 299 - AustraliauncountableA rodeo event in which the rider attempts to stay in the saddle of a bucking horse for a set period.
The well-known Australian horse-play, called buckjumping, — the like of which I do not remember seeing in any other part of the world, — is not only very disagreeable but extremely dangerous even to the good horseman.
1857, Godfrey Charles Mundy, Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies, page 571 more example
“How well you ride, Mr. McIntyre!” said Miss Webster in the course of the dinner. “I must confess I like to see a bit of good buckjumping.” Duncan smiled. “I nearly came to grief under that low brigalow though,” he said.
1893, Ernest Favenc, Tales of the Austral Tropics, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0600691h
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