Words for Horses

Kingly or lazy, galloping or stubborn: find the perfect words to describe your horse or pony.

  1. active
  2. affectionate
  3. agile
  4. agreeable
  5. alert
  6. amazing
  7. amusing
  8. anxious
  9. at-the-ready
  10. athletic
  11. awe-inspiring
  12. bareback
  13. beautiful
  14. behavioral
  15. beloved
  16. big
  17. bomb-proof
  18. brave
  19. bright
  20. bright-eyed
  21. broke
  22. bull-headed
  23. calm
  24. caring
  25. castrated
  26. challenging
  27. cheeky
  28. cheerful
  29. chubby
  30. clean
  31. clever
  32. clipped
  33. clumsy
  34. cocky
  35. comic
  36. courageous
  37. crafty
  38. crazy
  39. curious
  40. daring
  41. defiant
  42. demanding
  43. dependent
  44. devoted
  45. disobedient
  46. distinctive
  47. dominant
  48. dreamy
  49. eager-to-please
  50. easy-to-train
  51. effortless
  1. kingly
  2. laidback
  3. lazy
  4. likable
  5. lithe
  6. little
  7. long-haired
  8. lovable
  9. loved
  10. loving
  11. loyal
  12. magnificent
  13. majestic
  14. mellow
  15. merry
  16. miniature
  17. mischievous
  18. moody
  19. muscled
  20. muscular
  21. naughty
  22. needy
  23. nervous
  24. obedient
  25. obstinate
  26. out to pasture
  27. outgoing
  28. pampered
  29. patient
  30. people-friendly
  31. perfect
  32. personable
  33. playful
  34. pleasant
  35. powerful
  36. pretty
  37. problem-solving
  38. protective
  39. queenly
  40. quick
  41. quiet
  42. quirky
  43. ready-to-please
  44. rebellious
  45. regal
  46. registered
  47. relaxed
  48. rescued
  49. responsive
  50. rowdy
  51. sassy
  1. energetic
  2. English
  3. entertaining
  4. equine
  5. equistrian
  6. faithful
  7. family-friendly
  8. fast
  9. foolish
  10. forgiving
  11. four-legged
  12. free
  13. free-moving
  14. friendly
  15. frisky
  16. fun
  17. funny
  18. furry
  19. fuzzy
  20. gated
  21. gentle
  22. giant
  23. good
  24. good-natured
  25. goofy
  26. gorgeous
  27. greedy
  28. green
  29. grumpy
  30. half-obedient
  31. handsome
  32. happy
  33. hard-working
  34. head-shy
  35. headstrong
  36. healthy
  37. heartwarming
  38. hilarious
  39. horse crazy
  40. huggable
  41. hungry
  42. hyper
  43. hyperactive
  44. in good health
  45. independent
  46. instinctual
  47. intelligent
  48. jolly
  49. joyful
  50. keen
  51. kid-friendly
  1. sensitive
  2. shiny
  3. shod
  4. short-haired
  5. shy
  6. silly
  7. skittish
  8. sleek
  9. sleepy
  10. smart
  11. smelly
  12. sneaky
  13. soft
  14. spirited
  15. spoiled
  16. spoiled rotten
  17. spook-proof
  18. spooky
  19. sporty
  20. spotted
  21. spry
  22. strong
  23. stubborn
  24. submissive
  25. superior
  26. sure-footed
  27. sweet
  28. talented
  29. temperamental
  30. territorial
  31. timid
  32. tough
  33. trail-friendly
  34. trainable
  35. trained
  36. trustworthy
  37. trusty
  38. under saddle
  39. unique
  40. warm
  41. watchful
  42. well-bred
  43. well-trained
  44. western
  45. wild
  46. willing
  47. willing-to-learn
  48. wonderful
  49. zippy
  1. affection
  2. agility
  3. alpha horse
  4. animal
  5. antics
  6. apple
  7. arena
  8. athlete
  9. barn
  10. barrel racer
  11. bath
  12. beast
  13. beautiful mover
  14. behavior
  15. best friend
  16. big heart
  17. birth
  18. bit
  19. blanket
  20. board
  21. boots
  22. breast collar
  23. breeches
  24. breed
  25. breeding
  26. breeding stock
  27. bridle
  28. buddy
  29. carrot
  30. chaps
  31. charmer
  32. coat
  33. colic
  34. colt
  35. comedian
  36. command
  37. communication
  38. companion
  39. confirmation
  40. correction
  41. courage
  42. crop
  43. cross country
  44. cross ties
  45. croup
  46. curry comb
  47. devotion
  48. disposition
  49. dream horse
  50. dressage
  51. ears
  52. equestrian
  1. lead rope
  2. learner
  3. leather
  4. leathers
  5. lesson
  6. lesson horse
  7. life companion
  8. listener
  9. live cover
  10. loin
  11. lover
  12. mane
  13. mare
  14. markings
  15. martingale
  16. master
  17. mate
  18. monster
  19. moody mare
  20. mounting block
  21. movement
  22. muscles
  23. muzzle
  24. my baby
  25. nap
  26. napper
  27. obedience
  28. owner
  29. pal
  30. pasture
  31. pedigree
  32. personality
  33. playmate
  34. poll
  35. pony
  36. praise
  37. princess
  38. problem solver
  39. push
  40. queen
  41. quirk
  42. racetrack
  43. reins
  44. rider
  45. riding boots
  46. riding lesson
  47. riding level
  48. riding session
  49. riding therapy
  50. roping
  51. round pen
  52. rump
  1. exercise companion
  2. farm
  3. farrier
  4. fast learner
  5. feathers
  6. feed
  7. feed bucket
  8. feed store
  9. fetlock
  10. filly
  11. flank
  12. flies
  13. fluff ball
  14. fly mask
  15. fly sheet
  16. foal
  17. foaling
  18. four-legged family member
  19. freedom
  20. friend
  21. fur
  22. gate
  23. gelding
  24. gentle giant
  25. girth
  26. good boy
  27. good girl
  28. goofus
  29. grain
  30. habits
  31. half chaps
  32. halter
  33. hard worker
  34. hard/soft correction
  35. hay bale
  36. herd
  37. herd leader
  38. hoof
  39. hoof pick
  40. hooves
  41. horse
  42. horse apparel
  43. horse auction
  44. horse person
  45. horse shoes
  46. horse trailer
  47. hunger
  48. individual
  49. injury
  50. irons
  51. jumper
  52. jumps
  1. saddle bag
  2. saddle pad
  3. shavings
  4. show career
  5. show horse
  6. show off
  7. sleep
  8. smell
  9. snuggler
  10. source of entertainment
  11. sport horse
  12. spring grass
  13. spurs
  14. stable
  15. stable blanket
  16. stall
  17. stall door
  18. stallion
  19. straw
  20. stress reliever
  21. supplements
  22. sweetheart
  23. tail
  24. talker
  25. teacher
  26. teeth
  27. temperament
  28. therapy
  29. therapy horse
  30. thief
  31. timothy & alfalfa
  32. track
  33. trail
  34. trail companion
  35. trailer
  36. trainer
  37. training
  38. training method
  39. treat
  40. turnout
  41. turnout blanket
  42. tyke
  43. vet
  44. veteranarian
  45. vice
  46. wash stall
  47. water bucket
  48. whinny
  49. whip
  50. withers
  51. wormer
  52. yearling
  1. adore
  2. aims to please
  3. baby
  4. balk
  5. bathe
  6. beg
  7. behave
  8. bite
  9. bolt
  10. bomb-proof
  11. bow the leg
  12. break
  13. breed
  14. brush
  15. buck
  16. buck off
  17. canter
  18. care for
  19. castrate
  20. challenge
  21. challenge the rider
  22. check your diagonal
  23. chew
  24. chomp at the bit
  25. clean
  26. clip
  27. comb
  28. command
  29. communicate
  30. condition leather
  31. condition muscles
  32. correct
  33. crib
  34. crow hop
  35. cuddle
  36. curl up
  37. dance
  38. defend
  39. dig
  40. do tricks
  41. drive
  1. mount
  2. muzzle
  3. neigh
  4. neuter
  5. nuzzle
  6. obey
  7. own
  8. pamper
  9. paw
  10. paw at the ground
  11. pet
  12. pick hooves
  13. play
  14. play with
  15. point
  16. poop
  17. post
  18. practice
  19. praise
  20. prance
  21. protect
  22. provide for
  23. pull
  24. race
  25. rear
  26. rear up
  27. reinforce
  28. respond
  29. reward
  30. ride
  31. ride bareback
  32. roll
  33. romp
  34. rope
  35. rub
  36. run
  37. run and play
  38. run free
  39. saddle
  40. saddle up
  41. saunter
  1. entrust
  2. exercise
  3. explore
  4. eyes
  5. fall off
  6. feed
  7. fence
  8. fetch
  9. flies through the air
  10. float the teeth
  11. follow
  12. frolic
  13. froth
  14. froth at the bit
  15. give a leg-up
  16. give love
  17. go for a ride
  18. graze
  19. greet
  20. groom
  21. guard
  22. handle
  23. hear
  24. heel
  25. herd
  26. hit the trail
  27. housebreak
  28. hunt
  29. injure
  30. interact
  31. jump
  32. kick
  33. lay down
  34. lead
  35. learn
  36. lick
  37. listen
  38. load into trailer
  39. lope
  40. love
  41. loves back
  1. scratch
  2. shake
  3. shed
  4. shoe
  5. show
  6. show off
  7. show stop
  8. smell
  9. sniff
  10. snooze
  11. snort
  12. snuggle
  13. soar
  14. spay
  15. spoil
  16. spook
  17. spook-proof
  18. sprint
  19. spur
  20. squeal
  21. stop
  22. swat flies
  23. take a lesson
  24. take care of
  25. take the bit
  26. tosses head
  27. train
  28. trot
  29. trust
  30. turnout
  31. verbally praise
  32. walk
  33. wash
  34. water
  35. weave
  36. whinny
  37. whip
  38. whoa
  39. worm
  40. worship
  1. albino
  2. bay
  3. black
  4. blood bay
  5. blue roan
  6. brindle
  7. buckskin
  8. champagne
  9. chestnut
  1. leopard
  2. liver
  3. pain
  4. paint
  5. palamino
  6. pangare
  7. pearl
  8. piebald
  9. pinto
  1. copper
  2. cremello
  3. dappled
  4. dark bay
  5. dun
  6. flaxen
  7. flaxen chesnut
  8. fleabitten gray
  9. golden champagne
  1. roan
  2. salt & pepper gray
  3. silver dapple
  4. sorrel
  5. spotted
  6. steel gray
  7. strawberry roan
  8. white
  1. abused
  2. afraid
  3. afraid of trailer
  4. aggressive
  5. allergic
  6. allergy
  7. annoying
  8. anxious
  9. attached
  10. attacks
  11. bad
  12. bad habits
  13. balk
  14. beg
  15. begger
  16. berserk
  17. bite
  18. biter
  19. biting
  20. bolts
  21. bucks
  22. bull-headed
  23. can't be trusted
  24. chained up
  25. chaser
  26. chases cars
  27. chewer
  28. chews
  29. chubby
  30. clingy
  31. clumsy
  32. colic
  33. covered in mud
  34. crazy
  35. crib
  1. lonely
  2. loner
  3. lost
  4. mean
  5. misbehaved
  6. misbehaves
  7. mischievous
  8. moody
  9. naughty
  10. needy
  11. nervous
  12. neurotic
  13. nip
  14. nipper
  15. noisy
  16. obstinate
  17. odd
  18. overly fearful/timid/shy
  19. overprotective
  20. overweight
  21. overweight
  22. paces
  23. pacing
  24. panics
  25. pees in the house
  26. picky about food
  27. possessive
  28. pulls
  29. pulls on reins
  30. punish
  31. punishment
  32. put down
  33. ratty
  34. rears
  35. rebellious
  1. dangerous
  2. defiant
  3. demanding
  4. destroys
  5. destructive
  6. destructive behavior
  7. dirty
  8. disobedient
  9. disobedient
  10. domineering
  11. dumb as rocks
  12. ex-racehorse
  13. expensive
  14. fall off
  15. fat
  16. fear of crossing water
  17. fearful
  18. feral
  19. frustrating
  20. gets on the bed/furniture
  21. greedy
  22. green
  23. grimy
  24. hard-to-handle
  25. has to pee on everything
  26. head-shy
  27. health issues
  28. high-strung
  29. homeless
  30. hyperactive
  31. ill-behaved
  32. impatient
  33. inbred
  34. jumpy
  35. kick
  1. rowdy
  2. run away
  3. runs away
  4. scared
  5. scared in new environment
  6. scrawny
  7. separation anxiety
  8. skittish
  9. smells bad
  10. smelly
  11. sneaky
  12. split hoof
  13. spoiled
  14. spook
  15. spooked
  16. spooky
  17. stall pacer
  18. stinky
  19. stressful
  20. stressful to own
  21. stubborn
  22. stupid
  23. temperamental
  24. territorial
  25. the strangles
  26. thin
  27. tosses head
  28. unwilling
  29. vices
  30. whine
  31. whiner
  32. wild
  33. yanks
  1. a pure pleasure to ride
  2. big/powerful/beautiful mover
  1. I'll be at the barn!
  2. if you fall off the horse, get right back on
  1. Feeling down? Saddle up.
  2. for the love of a horse
  1. soar/move elegantly/fly under saddle
  2. special relationship between rider and horse
  1. A canter is a cure for every evil. -Benjamin Disraeli
  2. A dog may be man's best friend, but the horse wrote history. -Unknown
  3. A good horse makes short miles. -George Elliot
  4. A good rider can hear his horse speak to him, a great rider can hear his horse whisper, but a bad rider won't hear his horse even if it screams at him. -Unknown
  5. A Hibernian sage once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets: The girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse. -C.J.J. Mullen
  6. A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan. -Pam Brown
  7. A horse doesn't care how much you know, until he knows how much you care. -Pat Parelli
  8. A horse is poetry in motion. -Unknown
  9. A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. -Pam Brown
  10. A horse is worth more than riches. -Spanish Proverb
  11. A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open. -Gerald Raferty
  12. A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. -Duke of Endinburgh
  13. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! -William Shakespeare, Richard III
  14. A horseman should know neither fear, nor anger. -James Rarey
  15. A lovely horse is always an experience....It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. -Beryl Markham
  16. A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot. -John Steinbeck
  17. A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot. ~John Steinbeck
  18. A pony is a childhood dream, a horse is an adulthood treasure. -Rebecca Carroll
  19. A woman needs two animals - the horse of her dreams and a jackass to pay for it. -Unknown
  20. Again the early-morning sun was generous with its warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me - the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs - little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory. -Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
  21. All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day. -Unknown
  22. And Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created the horse....Thou shall fly without wings, and conquer without any sword. Oh, horse. -Bedouin Legend
  1. In my opinion, a horse is the animal to have. Eleven-hundred pounds of raw muscle, power, grace, and sweat between your legs - it's something you just can't get from a pet hamster. -Unknown
  2. In riding a horse we borrow freedom. -Helen Thomson
  3. It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. -Mexican Proverb
  4. It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
  5. It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. -Stephen Leacock
  6. It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! -Nicholas Evans
  7. It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. -Unknown
  8. Look back at our struggle for freedom, Trace our present day's strength to it's source; And you'll find that man's pathway to glory Is strewn with the bones of the horse. -Unknown
  9. Many people have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse,' but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses. -C.W. Anderson
  10. Mrs. Patrick Campbell
  11. My horse's feet are as swift as rolling thunder He carries me away from all my fears And when the world threatens to fall asunder His mane is there to wipe away my tears. -Bonnie Lewis
  12. Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction. -Cowboy saying
  13. No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. -Winston Churchill
  14. One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. -Dale Carnegie
  15. Riding: the art of keeping a horse between you and the ground. -Unknown
  16. Sell the cow, buy the sheep, but never be without the horse. ~Irish Proverb
  17. Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house. -Maya Patel
  18. Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse. -Unknown
  19. Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers. -Charles M. Russell
  20. The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death. -Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
  21. The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out a stable. -Samantha Armstrong
  22. The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire. -Sharon Ralls Lemon
  1. For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail. -Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1758
  2. Four things greater than all things are: Women and Horses and Power and War. -Rudyard Kipling
  3. Gipsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark. -Claddaugh Gypsies of Galway
  4. God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses. -R.B. Cunninghame Graham
  5. Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. -Chinese Proverb
  6. He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. -Stephen Leacock
  7. He knows when you're happy He knows when you're comfortable He knows when you're confident And he always knows when you have carrots. -Unknown
  8. He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger....he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts. -William Shakespeare, Henry V
  9. Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means. -Rudolf C. Binding
  10. Honor lies in the mane of a horse. -Herman Melville
  11. Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. -W.C. Fields
  12. Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world. -Josephine Demott Robinson
  13. Horses are uncomfortable in the middle and dangerous at both ends. -Ian Fleming
  14. Horses lend us the wings we lack. -Unknown
  15. I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary. -Mark Twain
  16. I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. -Sherwood Anderson
  17. I prefer a bike to a horse. The brakes are more easily checked. -Lambert Jeffries
  18. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. -J.D. Salinger
  19. I've spent most of my life riding horses. The rest I've just wasted. ~Anonymous
  20. If God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself. -Unknown
  21. If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle. -Rita Mae Brown
  22. If you want a stable friendship, get a horse. -Unknown
  1. The horse is God's gift to mankind. -Arabian Proverb
  2. The horse knows how to be a horse if we will leave him alone... but the riders don't know how to ride. What we should be doing is creating riders and that takes care of the horse immediately. ~Charles de Kunffy
  3. The horse through all its trials has preserved the sweetness of paradise in its blood. -Johannes Jensen
  4. The horses paw and prance and neigh, Fillies and colts like kittens play, And dance and toss their rippled manes Shining and soft as silken skeins. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
  5. The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. -Yiddish Proverb
  6. The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. -Arabian Proverb
  7. There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the horses have most of it. -Unknown
  8. There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. -Robert Smith Surtees
  9. There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing. ~Will Rogers
  10. There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. -Winston Churchill
  11. There's nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse. -Ronald Reagan
  12. They say princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship. The reason is the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. -Ben Jonson
  13. To me, horses and freedom are synonymous. -Veryl Goodnight
  14. To ride a horse is to ride the sky. -Unknown
  15. Tomorrow, sell your camel and buy a horse. Camels are traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and never seem to tire. Then suddenly, they kneel and die. But horses tire bit by bit. You always know how much you can ask of them, and when it is they are about to die. -Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
  16. Trust in God, but tie your horse. -Anonymous
  17. What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. -Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
  18. When God created the horse, he said to the magnificent creature: I have made thee as no other. All the treasures of the earth shall lie between thy eyes. Thou shalt cast thy enemies between thy hooves, but thou shalt carry my friends upon they back. Thy saddle shall be the seat of prayers to me. And thou fly without any wings, and conquer without any sword. ~The Koran
  19. When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. -William Shakespeare, Henry V
  20. When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age, you splatter. -Roy Rogers
  21. Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, Friendship without envy, Or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is served with muscle And strength by gentleness confined He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent. There is nothing so quick, nothing more patient. -Ronald Duncan, "The Horse," 1954
  22. Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it. -John Moore