connected with riding horses, especially as a sport 马术的 equestrian events at the Olympic Games 奥林匹克运动会的马术比赛项目 an equestrian statue/portrait (= one of a person on a horse) 骑马雕像/肖像
Oxford Collocations DictionaryEquestrian is used with these nouns:- portrait
- sport
- statue
- …
Word Originmid 17th cent. (as an adjective): from Latin equester ‘belonging to a horseman’ (from eques ‘horseman, knight’, from equus ‘horse’) + -ian.