Horse (disambiguation)

The word horse has a number of uses:

The animal

* Horse, a large mammal domesticated for thousands of years. A member of the Equidae family.
** Also, the wild horse from which this animal evolved
** Sometimes used to refer to a stallion, as opposed to a mare or a gelding
* Horse meat
* A cavalry unit; sometimes part of the official name of a mounted regiment.
* Horse worship
* Horses in Warfare

Equipment

Items built roughly with a horse's silhouette such as:
* Vaulting horse in gymnastics,
* Pommel horse in men's gymnastics,
* Wooden horse, used in bondage,
* Woodworking tools such as the sawhorse and shave horse.

Music and musicians

* Band of Horses, an American indie rock band.
* "Horses (album)", by Patti Smith, 1975.
* HORSE the Band is an experimental hardcore band.
* Horse, vocalist/musician.

Other people

*Crazy Horse, Lakota leader
*George Horse-Capture, Native American writer and anthropologist
*Many Horses, an Oglala Sioux spiritual leader
*Moses J. "Chief" Yellow Horse (1898-1964), the first full-blooded Native American to play in the Major Leagues

Games

* Horse (game), a game played with a basketball
* Slang for a starting pitcher in baseball
* An informal name for the knight in the game of chess; its equivalent is the only common name in various languages.
* H.O.R.S.E., a form of poker.

Other

* In the Vodou faith, a "horse" is a ritualist who is possessed by a spirit known as a Loa.
* Slang for heroin.
* Horse, a zodiac sign in Chinese astrology.
* The Yakolev Yak-24 Horse, a Soviet transport helicopter.
*The Horse is slang for Kicking Horse Mountain Resort.

Compound forms

* A geologic horse, a technical term in structural geology.
* "Iron horse", an archaic term for a locomotive.
* Horsepower, a measure of power in physics.