# eventing

Pronunciation: say "i-VENT-ing" /ɪˈvɛntɪŋ/

## Noun

1. A competitive equestrian sport combining dressage, cross-country, and showjumping; also a similar contest run with motor cars.
   - Simple: A horse-riding sport made up of dressage, cross-country riding and jumping over fences.
   - _Olympic eventing requires the same horse and rider to compete across all three phases._
   - _She qualified for the national eventing championships after a strong cross-country round._
2. A mechanism by which one part of a program signals another that something has happened, using raised events.
   - Simple: A way for one part of a program to tell another part when something happens.
   - _The framework relies on eventing to coordinate independent components._
   - _Robust eventing allows services to broadcast notifications without knowing who will respond._

## Noun

3. The occurrence or taking place of an event, considered as a happening in its own right. *(rare)*
   - Simple: When something happens, or the fact that an event takes place.

## Verb

4. Present participle of event. Obsolete. *(obsolete)* — present participle and gerund of event
   - Simple: Present participle of event. An obsolete use, no longer found in modern English.

## Origin

Formed from "event" combined with the suffix "-ing".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/eventing (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).