tent pegging (tentpeg"ing)

An equestrian game or exercise common among British soldiers in India, in which the competitors, riding at full gallop, try to strike and carry off on the point of a lance a tent-peg which has been firmly fixed in the ground. As a last wind-up there was a little tent - pegging , but, as my husband and Lieutenant Carrol were the only ones who could do anything, it was soon over. E. Sartorius, In the Soudan, p. 196.