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People are just discovering that hobby horsing is a thing and there are a few neighsayers

Poke Staff. Updated June 13th, 2024

If you’ve never heard of hobby horsing, you’re about to be treated to quite the spectacle.

As it sounds, hobby horsing is riding a hobby horse – you know, like children in Victorian period dramas, except it’s adults and there are fewer ghosts involved.

Here’s a little snippet that shows what it’s all about.

@kht_duck Slovakia championship #khtduck #hobbyhorsing #dressage #hobbyhorse #slovakia ♬ original sound – Jhay

The same rider, Anna, brushed off suggestions that it isn’t a sport, with this clip showing how exhausting she finds it.

@kht_duck Yeah, it looks easy, but this is reality 🙂 #khtduck #hobbyhorsing #dressage #sport #realsport #reality ♬ Fangs (Slowed Down) – Dionnysuss

It looked pretty exhausting to us, to be fair. Not sure it’s really a sport, though. More of a hobby.

Commenters weighed in.

I think this might say more about your health and general physicality than it does about how strenuous Hobby Horsing can be lmao.
klonopin_taylor_thomas

She’s not horsing around guys!!!
Duolingo

I did not know what hobby horsing was till I looked at what it was and the laugh I let out.
Chloe

When the clip (-clop) inevitably turned up on Twitter/X, it went massively viral, picking up more than 33 million views in three days, as well as some entertaining reactions.

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We can guarantee we couldn’t do this even if we weren’t riding a fancy sweeping brush.

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