rodeo
noun /ˈrəʊdiəʊ/, /rəʊˈdeɪəʊ/
/ˈrəʊdiəʊ/, /rəʊˈdeɪəʊ/
(plural rodeos)
- a public competition, especially in the US, in which people show their skill at riding wild horses and catching cattle with ropesTopics Sports: other sportsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryRodeo is used before these nouns:
- arena
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Spanish, from rodear ‘go round’, based on Latin rotare ‘rotate’.