User:SiGarb/Hobby horse (toy)
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A hobbyhorse (also hobby horse or hobby-horse) is a child's toy horse, particularly popular during the days before cars, when horses were a common form of transport.
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For other uses, see Hobby horse (disambiguation).
Children, and sometimes adults, pretend to ride a wooden hobbyhorse made of a straight stick with a small horse's head (of wood or stuffed fabric), and perhaps reins, attached to one end. The bottom end of the stick may have a small wheel or wheels attached. This toy was also sometimes known as a cock horse (as in the nursery rhyme Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross).