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
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a word derived from
polo.
Example Sentences
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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
Foxhall Parker Keene, 74, onetime leading U.S. poloist, member of the first U.S. international polo team in 1886; at Ayer's Cliff, Quebec.
From Time Magazine Archive
Colonel Thomas Hitchcock, 44, internationally famed poloist; in a plane crash; near Salisbury, England.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unlike his father, W. A. Harriman is a strenuous athlete, famed chiefly as a poloist.
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But being what he is, a prospective duke, an international poloist, and all that sort of thing, the reporters naturally swarm to him.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
