What does "hack" mean?

Question

what does "hack" mean? it means flat, right??

Answer 1

ENGLISH FOR TRAIL RIDE

SCOTTISH FOR BEGINNER TRAIL RIDE.

TREK=  SCOTTISH FOR EXPERIENCED TRAIL RIDE.

Answer 2

In the english terms it is flat

and hack is another word for trail ride sometimes

Answer 3

How is it used?  I've usually heard it meaning a short walk out in the fields, like, "I'm going for a hack," but you may be referring to something else.

Answer 4

It is the english word for quiet flat work. I use it to refer to trail riding.

Answer 5

I live in the UK and 'hack' is the more commonly used word for a trail ride. So basically, if you came here and said 'Can i go on a hack', you'd go out for a ride in the countryside or on the beach. It's just a fun ride.

Answer 6

It's English for trailriding.

Answer 7

It's an old English term which referred to a short ride outside in the fields or countryside. It also referred to a specific type of flatwork, or a horse which was able to do such work easily, such as a Hunter Hack.

Answer 8

hacking is when you work your horse at a walk, trot, and canter.  sometimes the flat class (w/t/c class) in a horse show is refered to as a hack class.

Answer 9

the barns in my area generally use "hack" as riding without being in a lesson

Answer 10

wow i've owned horses my whole life, but i have done western riding not english, i have never heard that word used with a horse lol

i need to catch up on some of the english riding words too i guess

Answer 11

The kids at the stable i work at used it as when they were going to work their horses but not in a lesson.  So they would say I am just going to do a short hack.  I had never heard it until I worked there.  This was a hunter jumper barn so in lessons they would work on jumping.

Answer 12

hack means you are trying 2 get some thing out of ur thorat

Answer 13

Going out for a hack simply means going out for a trot.

Answer 14

Hack can mean 2 things.  One, it can mean a horse rented out for use by whoever wants it.  Two, it can mean basically pleasure riding, slow riding over easy terrain, nothing competitive, fast, or hard.