跑马 (pǎomǎ): to ride a horse at a gallop

Meanings

1 to ride a horse at a gallop
2 horse race / horse racing
3 (dialect, vulgar) to have a wet dream

Characters

跑

Examples

他喜欢在草原上跑马。

Tā xǐhuān zài cǎoyuán shàng pǎomǎ.

He likes to gallop on horseback across the grasslands.

上海曾经有一个跑马场。

Shànghǎi céngjīng yǒu yī gè pǎomǎchǎng.

Shanghai once had a racecourse.

Tips

culture

跑马场 (pǎomǎ chǎng, 'racecourse') was a fixture of treaty-port Shanghai — today's People's Square (人民广场) sits on the old British-built course. The word also has a regional vulgar sense ('to have a wet dream'); the horse-riding/racing meaning is the everyday one.