How to Use barrel racing in a Sentence

barrel racing

noun
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  • Games for adults include a barrel race, Wellington throw, skittles, three- legged race and more.
    — Staff Report, Daily Southtown, 6 Sep. 2017
  • While her siblings tackled the bike track, Marks took up horse barrel racing.
    — Heather L. Whitley, Southern Living, 25 July 2024
  • Cre Larson and her son, Dalton, visited the ranch in late June to look for a barrel racing prospect.
    — Star Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
  • There’s a pancake breakfast at 7 a.m. and calf roping and barrel racing events at 11 a.m.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2021
  • There's barrel racing, beauty pageants and, of course, bull riding.
    — Brianna Crane, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The sports that make up rodeos—roping, barrel racing—have been around a long time, but the styles at Black rodeos are increasingly modern, and the faces ever younger.
    — Sarah Enelow-Snyder, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Apr. 2024
  • That’s followed by a pancake breakfast and barrel racing events.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2024
  • The livestock show is the largest in the world, and the rodeo is much more than barrel racing and bull riding (although those events are indeed thrilling), paying out over $2 million in winnings each year.
    — Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Overnight guests at Alisal Ranch in Solvang can pair up with one of the property's 100-plus ponies for everything from wrangling lessons to barrel racing.
    — Sarah Zlotnick, Country Living, 16 Aug. 2022
  • In the NRG Center's main arena, the 6-year-old motored his red wheelchair expertly through piles of green sawdust chips, headed straight for the barrel races.
    — Alyson Ward, Houston Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Get ready for thrilling rodeo events like bull riding, barrel racing, mutton busting, and roping.
    — Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Athletes compete in trick riding, barrel racing, and of course, bull riding.
    — Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
  • As a young girl and teenager, Gayle was a standout athlete -- softball, track, barrel racing, figure skating and beating the boys at BMX bike races.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2023
  • That run also provided her with her first barrel racing check.
    — Joe Naiman, Ramona Sentinel, 2 May 2018
  • Black cowboys and cowgirls compete for cash prizes in bronc and bull riding, calf and steer roping, barrel racing and a Pony Express relay race.
    — Dallas News, 16 June 2022
  • Pake had a knack for roping, while Reba spent 10 years competing in barrel racing, per her website.
    — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Events include bull riding, calf roping, wild cow milking, barrel racing and steer wrestling.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Ride horses, join a cattle drive or learn barrel racing (taking a horse and trying to make a cloverleaf pattern around barrels).
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Events include bull riding, calf roping and barrel racing.
    — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2022
  • His dreams are jettisoned by an injury, but his new, barrel racing girlfriend Mia convinces him to literally get back on the horse.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Jewel is a granddaughter of Dash Ta Fame, a famous barrel racing quarter horse stallion.
    — Brett Hoffman, star-telegram, 15 Jan. 2018
  • At just 13 years old, Brooklyn discovered her passion for horse barrel racing and went on to study animal science.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Fans can watch events such as bull riding, bareback and saddle bronc riding, team and tie-down roping and steer wrestling for cowboys and breakaway roping and barrel racing for cowgirls.
    — Laura Latzko, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The sport of barrel racing features ample excitement, as the winner is often determined by a fraction of a second.
    — Josh Criswell, Chron, 28 Feb. 2023
  • In the Junior division for girls Brooklyn competes in pole bending, barrel racing, goat tying, trail and breakaway.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Also new this year will be jackpot barrel racing beginning Sunday morning when dozens of riders will compete for prizes in timed events.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 31 July 2019
  • In addition to the bull riding, the fans were entertained with a women’s barrel race competition in which riders darted out of the chute gates on horseback in a race against time on a course through barrels in the arena.
    — Gene Nardi, sun-sentinel.com, 12 July 2019
  • Breakaway roping — in which riders throw a breakaway lasso around a calf released from a chute — and barrel racing are the only individual events open to them.
    — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The June rodeo also highlights the talents of young participants through junior barrel racing, junior bull riding and junior quadrille.
    — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 1 June 2022
  • Events such as bull riding, barrel racing, and bronc riding captivate audiences with heart-stopping action and displays of sheer courage.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 1 Feb. 2024

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