騎馬戦

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 騎馬戦, read きばせん, combines mounted-cavalry form 騎馬 with contest 戦 as a sports-day event name.
• Basic usage: It denotes a team event in which participants form human cavalry units and compete, as in 運動会の騎馬戦.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Scope and context
  • It usually means a school sports-day mock event, not a historical battle fought on real horses.