three-day event

1. 1.

   an equestrian competition; the first day is dressage; the second is cross-country jumping; the third is stadium jumping

   Broaderequestrian sport

   Partsdressageshowjumpingcross-country riding

Questions about three-day event

What does three-day event mean?

three-day event means "an equestrian competition; the first day is dressage; the second is cross-country jumping; the third is stadium jumping".

Is three-day event a common word?

three-day event 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.