Every sport has its own lingo, but rodeo has a language all its own. Whether you’re new to rodeo or just enjoy a good jab behind the chutes, we’ve come up with a list of our favorite rodeo slang and rodeo phrases that you may or may not be familiar with.

The PBR action heads to Columbus, Ohio, for an Unleash The Beast Event, while the Velocity Tour hits Des Moines, Iowa, and PBR Brazil is in the state of Sao Paulo this weekend. Sign up for a PRO subscription with FloRodeo to watch these, and all of the FloRodeo events we have on the season calendar. Click HERE to subscribe.

The top 15 spots in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and Women's Professional Rodeo Association and the top 12 in the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association are coveted. Competitors generally try not to think about it too much throughout the season, but being inside the top 15 or top 12 in their respective rodeo associations is the goal for every cowboy and cowgirl chasing NFR and CFR dreams.

Eighteen PRCA rookies and one rookie barrel racer in the WPRA are holding onto spots within the top 50 in the world standings as of April 18, 2019. One of those rookies, in particular, has risen above the rest. 

Binge watch semifinals one and two, plus the finals of the 2019 Denver Rodeo All-Star at the National Western in Denver, Colorado. If you're in the mood for a top-end invitational rodeo, we have nearly 10 hours of binge-worthy rodeo action right here.

The World Champions Rodeo Alliance (WCRA) and Days of ’47 Cowboy Games and Rodeo announced yesterday that they will be adding breakaway roping to the rodeo’s high-paying roster of events this July. The five-day Olympics-style rodeo pays $50,000 to the winners and boast a $125,000 purse overall, and one breakaway roper will now have that very same opportunity to earn the big cash prize and gold medal alongside the seven other official rodeo events.

Are you a junk food road warrior, scarfing down countless calories in the form of chips, candy, and chocolate bars? Or are you that person that digs through the basket of bananas at the gas station, searching for one that isn't bruised just so you can “stay healthy” while you’re on the rodeo trail?

Roughies have chaps, timeys have sponsor shirts, but the self-expression made possible through custom barrel racing shirts is a fashion world all its own. We’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite barrel racing shirts & shirt makers for the arena fashionista in us all.

Like many rodeo competitors, it all started with that one special horse. It may not have been the first one they got on, but it was the first one that took them to the winner's circle and let them have a taste of what it’s like to be a champion. 

The Canadian Professional Rodeo Association has announced that the Canadian Western Agribition in Regina, Saskatchewan, will be the home for the first-ever Maple Leaf Circuit Finals. In a press release yesterday, the association shared details of the event that was formerly the early kickoff to the CPRA season, but will now be an exciting final that will send two competitors to Kissimmee, Florida, for the Ram National Circuit Finals each year.