Picador

Picador in Mexico corralling with a bull, 2010.
A pair of picadors en la Santa María de Bogotá, 2018.

A picador (Spanish pronunciation: [pikaˈðoɾ]; pl. picadores) is one of the pair of horse-mounted bullfighters in a Spanish-style bullfight that jab the bull with a lance.[1][2] They perform in the tercio de varas, which is the first of the three stages in a stylized bullfight.

  1. ^ Tung, Angela (25 March 2015). "Them's bullfighting words". theweek.com. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Picador | bullfighting". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-07-02.

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