noun, plural ro·de·os.

  2. a roundup of cattle.

verb (used without object), ro·de·oed, ro·de·o·ing.

  1. to participate or compete in a rodeo or rodeos: He’s been rodeoing since he was twelve.

noun plural -os mainly US and Canadian

  3. an enclosure for cattle that have been rounded up

1914 as public entertainment show of horse-riding skill, from earlier meaning “cattle round-up” (1834), from Spanish rodeo, “pen for cattle at a fair or market,” literally “a going round,” from rodear “go round, surround,” related to rodare “revolve, roll,” from Latin rotare “go around” (see rotary).

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