polo
noun
a game played on horseback between two teams, each of four players, the object being to score points by driving a wooden ball into the opponents' goal using a long-handled mallet.
poloist
-
a word derived from
polo.
Example Sentences
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Joe Ruddy Jr. was the ablest swimmer and water poloist who ever attended Annapolis.
From Time Magazine Archive
The New York Athletic Club's water polo teams are coached by the most famed water poloist in history, Joe Ruddy Sr. His three sons, Ray, Don and Joe Jr. are currently the team's mainstay.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his long career as a poloist, amateur jockey and foxhunter, he has had time to break almost every bone in his round, slim-legged, huge-shouldered frame.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Prime Minister himself knows little of the subject except what he learned as an enthusiastic poloist in a Punjab regiment in Kipling's India.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ridden range, haven't you?" inquired the poloist when the other came in.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
