Today it is a sporting event that consists of events that involve horses and other livestock, designed to test the skill and speed of the human cowboy and cowgirl athletes who participate.

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks.

There are also cattle handlers in many other parts of the world, particularly South America and Australia, who perform work similar to the cowboy in their respective nations.

Many other instances of cowboy jargon were similarly borrowed from Mexican cowboys, including words such lariat, chaps, and buckaroo, which are in turn corruptions of the Spanish la riata, chaparajos, and vaquero.

" The collision of cowboy characters with puzzling technology and other anachronisms generates humor throughout the series.

The airport is named in honor of comedian and legendary cowboy Will Rogers, an Oklahoma native, and holds the distinction of being named after a person who died in an airplane crash ( as does the city's other major airport, Wiley Post Airport-both men died in the same crash in 1935 ).

Ritter wrote and starred in Cowboy Tom's Roundup on WINS-AM in 1933, a daily children's cowboy program aired over two other East Coast stations for three years.

In Calgary, Alberta, Canada, instead of a key, esteemed visitors receive a white Smithbilt cowboy hat and usually recite one of two oaths ( one formal, the other more silly ) to become honorary Calgarians.

He submitted illustrations, sketches, and other works for publication with Western themes to Collier's and Harper's Weekly, as his recent Western experiences ( highly exaggerated ) and his hearty, breezy “ cowboy ” demeanor gained him credibility with the eastern publishers looking for authenticity.

In October 1963 Paul initiated divorce proceedings in New Jersey against Ford, on the grounds of adultery and cruelty, claiming she had committed adultery with cowboy singer Foy Willing during a three-year affair, and also with building contractor Donald E. Hatfield, and " other various men "; had neglected the care of their children ; and had humiliated him in public by boasting of her affection for other men and claiming that he had abused her.

There are also many borrowings from other European languages such as English, specially words connected to technology, modern science and finance, like app, mod, layout, briefing, designer, slideshow, mouse ( computing ), forward, commodities, commercial terms like kingsize, fast food (), delivery service, self service, drive-thru, telemarketing, franchise, merchandise, but also cultural aspects such as okay, gay, vintage, junk food, hot dog, pet, lol, nerd (, rarely ), geek ( sometimes, but also and rarely ), noob, punk, skinhead (), emo (), indie (), hooligan, cool, vibe, hype, rocker, hippie, yuppie, bobo, hipster, overdose, junkie, cowboy, mullet, country, sex appeal, drag queen, queer, bro, rapper, mc, surf, skating, gospel, praise, bullying (, but much often the closer to native pronounce ), stalking (, much often closer ), etc.

Today, only some styles of cowboy boot retain a higher heel than other modern riding boots.

The love story between the two male ranch hands depicts a clear love between the two characters, but they find it hard to show each other affection, because of the sense that a cowboy must be the ideal American man.

The traditional uniform for these teams usually consist of a white ( sometimes other colors ) cowboy hat with white boots.

In other wrestling associations, he was " The Big Cat ," and walked in with a big cowboy hat.

Even with empty guns, CAS is very big on safety, even with the theme of the wild west's cowboy attire ; all shooters must wear safety glasses while on the firing line, in addition to other important safety rules, more than some other shooting sports have.

There are many other categories, especially at the local level, but the above are representative of the main types of categories one finds at cowboy action shooting events.

During this time, he worked with other noted cowboy and outlaw names of the day, including George " Bitter Creek " Newcomb, Charley Pierce, Bill Power, Dick Broadwell, Bill " Tulsa Jack " Blake, Dan " Dynamite Dick " Clifton, and Emmett Dalton.

He was known for his trademark cowboy hat on the sidelines, except when the Oilers played in the Astrodome or other domed stadiums.

In 2012, Complex called him the most stereotypical character in all video games ( representing stereotype " Native Americans "), describing him as " the epitome of every red-skinned, feather-wearing sports mascot and old cowboy movie serial " and commenting that " while other characters can have a gallery of normal punches and kicks, Nightwolf, our resident shaman, calls upon skills that even the old DC Comics ’ Apache Chief would frown on.

Old Golds adopted the tagline as being a cigarette for “ independent thinkers .” Chesterfield depicted cowboy and other masculine occupations to match their tagline of “ Men of America ” smoke Chesterfields.

A long-running saga was his good-humoured battle with well-known Courtenay Place busker ' Kenny ', a cowboy hat-wearing country music singer whose amplifier was confiscated by the council after the volume annoyed other city apartment-dwellers.

The Academy of Western Artists presents an annual award for outstanding chuckwagon cooking as well as honors in other fields relating to the culture of the American cowboy.

Demons, fairies, angels, and a host of other spiritual beings were as much a part of the experiential world of western man as were rocks and trees and stars.

They did not have the wit to follow the stars in their courses, to exchange names with each other, to harvest the experience of each for the wisdom of all.

Astrometry is the branch of astronomy that involves precise measurements of the positions and movements of stars and other celestial bodies.

Using Hōkūleʻa and other stars, the Polynesians launched their double-hulled canoes from Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands.

Arcturus is thought to be an old disk star, and appears to be moving with a group of 52 other such stars, known as the Arcturus stream.

Over a long period of time, the slightly denser regions of the nearly uniformly distributed matter gravitationally attracted nearby matter and thus grew even denser, forming gas clouds, stars, galaxies, and the other astronomical structures observable today.

The points, which can be galaxies, stars, or other objects, themselves are specified using a coordinate chart or " grid " that is laid down over all spacetime.

Six other players were involved in this dispute, including stars Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Dwayne Bravo.

By absorbing other stars and merging with other black holes, supermassive black holes of millions of solar masses may form.

If there are other stars orbiting a black hole, their orbit can be used to determine its mass and location.

The stars within an asterism rarely have any substantial astrophysical relationship to each other, and their apparent proximity when viewed from Earth disguises the fact that they are far apart, some being much farther from Earth than others.

Like several other stars such as Denebola and Deneb, it is named for the Arabic word for " tail " ( deneb ); its traditional name means " the tail of the kid ".

The other bright stars in Capricornus range in magnitude from 3. 1 to 5. 1. α Capricorni is a multiple star also known as Algedi or Giedi.

Comedy, unlike other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comic transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity.

While it ’ s true that the top television and film actors have become movie and television stars, musicians and pop singers that become pop stars, or athletes that become sports stars often become celebrities, the other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the entertainment sphere, such as television, music, and film directors and producers, screenwriters, playwrights, and animators are less likely to attain celebrity status ( albeit there are some exceptions, such as directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and animator Seth MacFarlane ).

Comets are assumed to orbit other stars, but they are far too small for all current methods of detecting extrasolar planets.

The CNO cycle ( for carbon – nitrogen – oxygen ) is one of two sets of fusion reactions by which stars convert hydrogen to helium, the other being the proton – proton chain.

The red giant Gacrux and orange giant Epsilon Crucis | Epsilon are distinctly different from the three other major stars of the constellation, which are blue-white in colour.

There are several other bright stars in Cetus.

The Brazilian Tukano and Kobeua people used the stars of Cetus to create a jaguar, representing the god of hurricanes and other violent storms.

There are several other dimmer double and binary stars in Cygnus.

Only a year later, at the age of 39, Doppler gave a lecture to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and subsequently published his most notable work, " Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels " ( On the coloured light of the binary stars and some other stars of the heavens ).