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'''Tent pegging''' (sometimes spelled 'tentpegging' or 'tent-pegging') is a [[cavalry]] or [[equestrian]] sport of ancient origin.
[[File:Playground-Warrior.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Traditional Pakistani Tent pegger]]

==The sport==
In the specific sport of tent pegging a mounted horseman, or at times a team of horsemen, rides at a gallop and uses a sword or a lance to pierce, pick up and carry away a small ground target (a symbolic tent peg) or a series of such small ground targets.

==Origins==
The origins of tent pegging are ambiguous and subject to some controversy. Some historians and other scholars believe it originated in [[Arabia]],<ref>Philip K. Hitti, ''History of the Arabs'', London: Macmillan, 1949 ed</ref> others believe that it might have evolved in [[Central Asia]],<ref>General Sir Richard Gale, ''Kings at Arms'', London: Hutchinson & Co, 1971</ref> while others still believe in its [[India]]n origins.<ref>https://admin.fei.org/Development/Regional_Disciplines/Pages/tent_Pegging.aspx {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401014439/https://admin.fei.org/Development/Regional_Disciplines/Pages/Tent_Pegging.aspx |date=2012-04-01 }} ; ''Tent pegging recognised by FEI'', Brief Report, 2004. Retrieved 15 Nov 2012</ref> It is believed that people have practised the game of tent pegging since at least the 4th century BC, and over the ages [[Middle East]]ern, [[Asian]] and later [[Europe]]an empires popularized the game around the world.

The term "tent pegging", however, historically emerged from the attacks by Arabian [[Muslim]] [[cavalier]]s on enemy camps at dawn or late night, where they would gallop to their tents and pluck out the pegs of their tents, so that these would collapse on them,<ref>''Horses and Riders of Arabia: A History of Military Tactics in Early Islam'', Rawalpindi: Pakistan Army Press, 1979</ref> thus causing havoc and terror in the camp. Several old [[medieval]] Arab books give descriptions of such tactics.<ref>See Muhammad Abdullah ibn Uthman al-Hakam, ''The Conquest of Persia'' (Orig.Arabic, 650-660 AD; translated Paris, 1874); and also several references cited in Ibn-Qutaybah, ''Uyun al-Akhbar'' (Section on arms and warfare), Vol. 1, Cairo, 1930, pp.128-132; as well as others</ref>

==Present==
Today, tent pegging is practised around the world, but is especially popular in [[Australia]], [[Pakistan]], India, [[Israel]], [[Oman]], the [[United Arab Emirates]], [[South Africa]], [[Canada]] and the [[United Kingdom]]. The Olympic Council of Asia included tent pegging as an official sport in 1982, and the [[International Federation for Equestrian Sports]] recognised it as an official equestrian discipline in 2004.

However, it is important to recognize the difference between tent pegging as an 'international sport' and the local, [[rural]] version of the sport played by the traditional tribal peoples such as the [[Bedu]] in the Middle East and Oman, the ''Desi'' horsemen of [[Pakistani]] and Indian [[Punjab]] and so on. The former is a milder sport, whereas the latter is a fiercer and more commanding contest.

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