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means A competition where riders rope cattle or ride broncs and bulls to show off ranching skills turned sport.

from Borrowed straight from Spanish rodeo, meaning 'a going round' or 'roundup,' from the verb rodear, 'to go around, to surround' — rooted in Latin rota, 'wheel.' It started as the literal act of cowboys circling cattle to pen them, practiced on Spanish and Mexican ranches across the American Southwest; by the late 1800s the roundup skills themselves became the show, and the word rode along into English pretty much unchanged. Note the stress shift, too: Spanish says ro-DAY-o, English mostly says RO-dee-o — same word, different gait.