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/d͡ʒɪmˈkɑnə/ · noun
(equestrianism) A competition where riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes..
In the afternoon the British held athletic sports, an impromptu military tournament, and a gymkhana, all of which caused much merriment and diversion, and the Boers profited by the cessation of the shell fire to shovel away at their trenches.
These privileged gentlemen have a fine club on the Fateh Maidan, a suburb of Hyderabad city, and they enjoy sports and races at the local gymkhana, in fact, they have a very good time, if one may judge by their appearance.
There was argument, public, private, and bar-parlor, with heated championship of one term or another on near-scientific, quasi-etymological, and a number of other grounds, but gradually one term began to dominate this philological gymkhana.
Use gymkhana when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gymkhana means (equestrianism) A competition where riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes..
Common synonyms include motorkhana.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In the afternoon the British held athletic sports, an impromptu military tournament, and a gymkhana, all of which caused much merriment and diversion, and the Boers profited by the cessation of the shell fire to shovel away at their trenches.
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