ngựa gỗ
Definition
- Noun:
- Wooden horse: A toy made of wood, shaped like a horse. This is the primary and most common meaning, referring to a child's plaything.
- Vaulting horse / pommel horse: In gymnastics, a piece of apparatus used for exercises and vaults. This is a specialized sporting term.
Usage Examples
Noun (toy):
- Đứa trẻ rất thích con ngựa gỗ mới của nó. (The child loves its new wooden horse.)
- Cửa hàng đồ chơi bán nhiều ngựa gỗ. (The toy store sells many wooden horses.)
Noun (gymnastics apparatus):
- Vận động viên nhảy qua ngựa gỗ một cách điêu luyện. (The athlete vaulted over the pommel horse skillfully.)
- Anh ấy đang tập bài tập trên ngựa gỗ. (He is practicing his routine on the vaulting horse.)
Advanced Usage
- The term can appear in literary or historical contexts, alluding to the ancient "Trojan Horse" (), which was famously made of wood. However, in modern Vietnamese, the direct phrase for that is typically "ngựa thành Troia."
Variants and Related Words
Đồ chơi gỗ (n): wooden toy.
- Ngựa gỗ là một loại đồ chơi gỗ phổ biến. (A wooden horse is a common type of wooden toy.)
Ngựa bập bênh (n): rocking horse (a specific type of toy horse, often but not always made of wood).
- Con ngựa gỗ đó cũng có thể là một con ngựa bập bênh. (That wooden horse could also be a rocking horse.)
Synonyms
- Toy horse: for the plaything meaning.
- Vaulting horse / Pommel horse: for the gymnastics apparatus.
Related Idioms
- While not a direct idiom, the concept is connected to the universal children's rhyme or imagery of "riding a wooden horse," symbolizing childhood play and imagination.