rocking horse

1. 1.

   a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride

   Synonymshobbyhobbyhorse

   Broaderplaything

   Partsrocker

Questions about rocking horse

What does rocking horse mean?

rocking horse means "a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride".

What is another word for rocking horse?

Close synonyms include hobby, hobbyhorse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rocking horse a common word?

rocking horse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.