eventing

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noun

An equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping; a similar event using motor cars

UncommonScrabble 12

Meanings

nouneventing (usually uncountable, plural eventings)

plural eventings

  1. uncountableusuallyAn equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping; a similar event using motor cars

    Chiacchia had to relearn the basics of walking and tying his shoes, but is now back competing in eventing.

    2009 February 23, Katie Thomas, “Equestrian Rider’s Recovery Serves as Reminder of Sport’s Danger”, in New York Times
  2. uncountableusuallycomputingThe ability of one system or part of a program to send notifications to another, by raising events.
    1 more example

    The concept behind eventing is fairly simple. With eventing, you have two pieces of code. For example, you might have a script that is running based on a scheduled task. That script might encounter some condition and can raise (or signal) an event, perhaps that it has completed its work. A second bit of code, perhaps a second script running on that same system, can register for events.

    2011, Thomas Lee, Karl Mitschke, Mark E. Schill, Windows PowerShell 2.0 Bible
  3. rareuncountableusuallyhuman sciencesThe occurrence of an event.

    The corollary of this, as Whorf points out, is that thinkings and feelings to do with 'eventings' in the world are located there, out in the world in which the eventing takes place - as a natural part of the whole into which they are interwoven.

    1993, John Shotter, Conversational Realities: Constructing Life Through Language
verb
  1. gerundobsoleteparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of event

Origin

  1. Latinēventus
  2. Middle Frenchevent
  3. Englishevent
  4. Englisheventing

From event + -ing.

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Translations

Finnish kenttäratsastus
  • kenttäratsastusequestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping
French concours complet
  • concours completequestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping
German Vielseitigkeitsreiten
  • Vielseitigkeitsreitenequestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping
Japanese 総合馬術
  • 総合馬術 (sōgō bajutsu)equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping
Korean 종합마술
  • 종합마술 (jonghammasul)equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping
Polish wszechstronny konkurs konia wierzchowego
  • wszechstronny konkurs konia wierzchowegoequestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping
Swedish fälttävlan
  • fälttävlanequestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping
Cite this entry
APA

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“eventing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eventing. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “eventing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eventing.

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