i ride horses in my spare time.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, \"horseman\", \"horse\"), more often known as riding, horse riding (British English) or horseback riding (American English), refers to the skill of riding, driving, steeplechasing or vaulting with horses. This broad description includes the use of horses for practical working purposes, transportation, recreational activities, artistic or cultural exercises and competitive sport. Horses are trained and ridden for practical working purposes such as in police work or for controlling herd animals on a ranch. They are also used in competitive sports including, but not limited to, dressage, endurance riding, eventing, reining, show jumping, tent pegging, vaulting, polo, horse racing, driving and rodeo (See additional equestrian sports listed later in this article for more examples). Some popular forms of competition are grouped together at horse shows, where horses perform in a wide variety of disciplines. Horses (and other equids such as mules) are used for non-competitive recreational riding such as fox hunting, trail riding or hacking. There is public access to horse trails in almost every part of the world; many parks, ranches and public stables offer both guided and independent riding.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I ride horses competitively sometimes, it's also known as dressage."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is very cool. It looks very fun."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's considered a very honorable and prestigious sport, also known as the highest expression of horse training."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I did not know that. How long have people been riding competitively? "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm not sure exactly, but I think the history is long. It's even a sport at the Olympics and World Equestrian Games."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What kind of equestrian events are there in the Olympics?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Right now the current disciplines are dressage, eventing, and jumping."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Has it always been in the Olympics?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It wasn't at the 1904 or 1908 Olympics, but it's been there every time since 1912."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Is it a very popular event?"}]