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# pony

«pony» in Mova's school dictionary: **a kind of small horse that stays small even when fully grown** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pony, ponies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pony is a kind of small horse that stays small even when fully grown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pony/#m1)

2) Informally, «pony» is a word some people use for a horse that children ride. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pony/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life many children learn to ride on ponies at riding schools and pony clubs; ponies are strong for their size, clever and can live in harsh places like moors (such as Shetland and Dartmoor ponies). In stories ponies are pets and companions. Phrases: «pony ride», «pony club», «Shetland pony», «ponytail» (hair tied back).

### examples

- I rode a pony at the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pony/#x1)
- A pony is shorter than most horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pony/#x2)
- Shetland ponies are small but very strong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pony/#x3)
- We saw wild ponies on Dartmoor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pony/#x4)
- She grooms her pony every morning before school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pony/#x5)
- The pony trotted round the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pony/#x6)
- My sister wears her hair in a ponytail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pony/#x7)
- Always walk behind a pony with care; it may kick if startled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pony/#x8)
- When the bewildered woman reached her dwelling, she mounted a pony and rode swiftly across the rolling land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pony/#x9)

### note

Plural «ponies» (y changes to ies). A baby horse or pony is a «foal», not a pony. A pony is measured in «hands» (up to about 14.2 hands). Safety: approach a pony from the side so it can see you.

### In the corpora

- [For its size a Shetland pony is one of the strongest horses and once pulled carts in coal mines.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/9/)
- [When you ride a pony you are sitting on thousands of years of history.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/0/)
- [Always wear a riding helmet when you ride a horse or pony.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/11/)
- [Aisha said she'd read her chapter about a dragon; the book was about a pony.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/427-i-did-brush-my-teeth-little-lies-at-home/8/)
- [A silly impossible add-on like "Yeah, sure, and a pony too" means "no".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pony» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pony/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.