bull-leaping
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.2|The Bull-Leaping Fresco from the Great Palace at [[Knossos, Crete]] thumb|upright=1.2|The bull-leaper, an ivory [[figurine from the palace of Knossos, Crete. The only complete surviving figure of a larger arrangement of figures. This is the earliest three dimensional representation of the bull leap. It is assumed that thin gold pins were used to suspend the figure over a bull.]]
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thumb|upright=1.2|The Bull-Leaping Fresco from the Great Palace at [[Knossos, Crete]] thumb|upright=1.2|The bull-leaper, an ivory [[figurine from the palace of Knossos, Crete. The only complete surviving figure of a larger arrangement of figures. This is the earliest three dimensional representation of the bull leap. It is assumed that thin gold pins were used to suspend the figure over a bull.]]
Bull-leaping (, ) is a term for various types of non-violent bull fighting. Some are based on an ancient ritual from the Minoan civilization involving an acrobat leaping over the back of a charging bull (or cow). As a sport it survives in Spain, with bulls, as ; in modern France, usually with cows rather than bulls, as ; and in Tamil Nadu, India with bulls as Jallikattu.
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