This is competitive hobby horse riding. It’s like equestrian sports, but without an actual horse. But that doesn't mean this ...

Eighteen-year-old Mica Zandstra stepped — OK, trotted — around a South Loop park dotted with office workers on their lunch break, a woman watching over a sleeping baby and a kid clinging to a rope ...

A weekly deep dive into the current trends, slang, and viral videos of youth culture in terms that even the squarest can understand. It’s easy to point and laugh at the growing sport of competitive ...

Competitive hobby horse riding, a Scandinavian sport experiencing an unexpected surge in popularity, galloped into Noosaville ...

The bar is almost 1.4 metres high. Hobby horsing contestant Marleen Gresmeier, 14, eyes the track before her, calculating how she and Brumsel can clear the jump. They are keenly watched by spectators ...

Germany’s first hobby horsing championship got underway in Frankfurt on Saturday, with hundreds of young riders competing in time jumping, style jumping and dressage on their wooden stick horses.

The sports hall in Vantaa, outside Helsinki, is packed with nearly 1,000 people seated on the benches, eagerly watching the court. Awaiting the riders, an equestrian course is set up in the middle, ...

Hundreds of athletes brought their horses to Almont, Michigan, last month for an American championship event. But the horses weren’t flesh and blood — they were stuffed heads on sticks that the ...

Hobby horsing is an extremely popular in Finland, Sweden, Germany and the UK. Now, it's starting to take off in the U.S. Mirabelle Soleil Whitman is from Wisconsin and has been competing in hobby ...

A thunderous click, then clack, then click again reverberated through the wooden gym floors on repeat. Bleacher seats shook with the sounds of hundreds of elated girls as they ran a lap together, each ...