Carnival is celebrated with lively parades often surrounding bull riding, cockfights and dancing.

As afterwards the Yajna ( sacrificial ) fire, its smoke, ashes and flames, the soma plant and the ox that used to carry on its back the wood for the Vedic sacrifice gave place to the conceptions of the brightness of Shiva's body, his tawny matted-hair, his blue throat and the riding on the bull of the Shiva.

# Best known of all, Pickens riding a dropped H-bomb to a certain death, whooping and waving his cowboy hat ( in the manner of a rodeo performer bronc riding or bull riding ), not knowing its detonation will trigger a Russian doomsday device.

Professional rodeos generally comprise the following events: tie-down roping, team roping, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, bareback bronc riding, bull riding and barrel racing.

In Nonnus ' Dionysiaca ( 11. 113 ), at Hera's instigation Atë persuades the boy Ampelus whom Dionysus passionately loves to impress Dionysus by riding on a bull from which Ampelus subsequently falls and breaks his neck.

Some of the events at the Fair include karaoke contests, a teen dance, car show, petting zoo, pony rides, bull riding, carnival rides, 4-H exhibits, horse shows, lumberjack show, and stock car racing.

Brown is remembered for riding an " unrideable " bull named Tornado in 1967.

The rodeo, started in 1968, features bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, calf roping, steer wrestling, ladies barrel racing, bull riding and other events.

There are six major disciplines – bull riding, barrel racing, steer wrestling, tie down roping, saddle bronc and bareback riding – and four novice events – junior steer riding, novice bareback, novice saddle bronc and wild pony racing.

It has its own small library, city hall, bull riding ring, and park.

Bull riding refers to rodeo sports that involve a rider getting on a large bull and attempting to stay mounted while the animal attempts to buck off the rider.

A rodeo clown, also known as a bullfighter ( US / Canada ) or rodeo protection athlete, is a rodeo performer who works in bull riding competitions.

In February 2006, the Professional Bull Riders hosted a Built Ford Tough Series bull riding event at this venue.

In the Dictionnaire Infernal by Collin de Plancy, Asmodeus is depicted with the breast of a man, a cock leg, serpent tail, three heads ( one of a man spitting fire, one of a sheep, and one of a bull ), riding a lion with dragon wings and neck, all of these animals being associated with either lascivity, lust or revenge.

Rodeos combine the traditional skills of the range cowboy — calf and steer roping, steer wrestling, team roping, bronco riding, and horsemanship with the showmanship of bull riding, and barrel racing.

Varney can be seen in Hank Williams, Jr .' s video for " All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight ", where he is briefly shown casually riding a bull being pulled on a rope by a young lady, and later in a swimming pool with two young ladies.

* Chris Shivers, two-time ( 2000, 2003 ) PBR World Champion bull rider

* Former professional PRCA and PBR bull rider Cody Custer was born in Kingman.

* Chris Shivers, two-time PBR world champion bull rider, was born in Natchez.

B. Mauney – bull rider for the PBR association

* Austin Meier, PBR professional bull rider.

* PBR bull rider Dustin Hall is originally from Wellston ( and now resides in Mount Vernon, Missouri ).

It also hosts the Ross Coleman Invitational, an annual Professional Bull Riders ( PBR ) minor-league tour event hosted by PBR bull rider and Molalla native Ross Coleman.

* Cody Nance — PBR bull rider, PBR Rookie of the Year 2009

On February 25, 2012, the PBR brought its premier bull riding tour, the Built Ford Tough Series, to Reliant Stadium for the first time ever.

It was also host to the Justin Bull Riding Championship, a PBR Bud Light Cup bull riding event, from 1998-2001.

Since 2002, it has also hosted a PBR Built Ford Tough Series bull riding event every year ( except in 2005 and 2006 ) until 2010.

It also hosted a PBR Built Ford Tough Series bull riding event in 2004.

Power Balance Pavilion has also hosted a PBR Built Ford Tough Series bull riding event every year since 2005.

Any competitor ( it does not have to be the rider who is riding the bull in question, as fellow riders can observe the action and spot fouls by bull or rider ) may file the complaint to the replay official by sounding a signal at the arena and pay a fee of $ 500 to PBR before explaining to the replay official why he is filing the request.

This includes using his own hand-held stopwatch to time bull rides, as the official eight-second clock used in PBR competition starts when the bull usually exits the bucking chute.

If the appeal is unsuccessful, the $ 500 is forfeited and sent to PBR charities such as the Resistol Relief Fund to assist injured bull riders.

The PBR has hosted a Built Ford Tough Series bull riding event at the arena every single year from the event's inception in 1998.

In 1998 and 1999 a Built Ford Tough Series Bud Light Cup event known as the Lane Frost Memorial was held in the Coliseum ; the PBR returned in 2007 to host minor-league tour stops sponsored by former bull rider Greg Potter.

Other entertainment events occasionally held in the Forum include concerts, NBA exhibition games, USF basketball and NCAA Tournament games, tennis, professional wrestling, boxing, figure skating, and rodeos ( as well as stand-alone bull riding events ; the Forum has hosted an event by the PBR's premier tour, the Bud Light Cup ( renamed Built Ford Tough Series in 2003 ), annually since 1998.

The PBR's Bud Light Cup tour hosted a bull riding event at this venue in 2000 and 2001.

Since 2004, the PBR's Built Ford Tough Series bull riding tour has hosted an annual event at this venue ( except for 2006 when the event was held at Chase Field ).

The Professional Bull Riders hosted a Built Ford Tough Series bull riding event at the Dome annually between 2003 and 2009.

The Northwest Round-up and Exhibition, which is hosted by the Agricultural Society, includes a parade, chariot and chuck wagon races, heavy and light horse shows, talent stages, concerts, dances, home living and school work exhibits, a midway, and the rodeo, which features events like the heavy horse pull, barrel racing, calf roping, and bull riding.

The LJVM has played host to large-scale events such as the quarterfinals of the 2007 Davis Cup, but has also hosted racing, bull riding, circus, religious conferences, conventions and other events.

The Professional Bull Riders hosted their premier bull riding tour, the Built Ford Tough Series ( known as the Bud Light Cup until 2002 ), each year from 2000 until 2008 ; its inaugural event in 2000 was noteworthy for being the first ever BFTS tour event where all 15 bull riders were bucked off in the short-go round.