ranch life
Rural pastoral existence
Ranch life is the lifestyle and daily activities associated with working or living on a ranch—a large farm devoted to raising livestock, especially cattle or horses.
The term evokes open spaces, hard physical labor, and rural self-sufficiency: She traded her corporate career for ranch life in Montana.
Ranch life often carries romantic associations with the American West, though the reality involves demanding work in all weather conditions.
- horsesLarge domesticated hoofed mammals
- cowboyMounted cattle herder
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- rodeoCowboy skills competition
- hayDried feed crop
branding · saddle · wide open spaces · frontier spirit · bunkhouse · early mornings · hard work · irrigation · water rights · fencing · barbed wire · grazing · sheep · roundup · chuck wagon · rancher · lasso · herding
- Wild Westcowboy, howdy, sheriff, giddyup, lawmen
- ranchingcattle, rancher, ranchers, ranching, cattle ranching
- TexasAlamo, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio
- Westernscowboys, western, outlaws, sheriffs, western novels
- frontierfrontier, pioneer, pioneers, settlers, settler
- lifestylessimple living, minimalism, self-care, healthy eating, communal living
ranch lifecity life
Existence in populated centers
urban life · urban dwelling · city living · metropolitan life · suburban life
ranch lifedesk job
Seated indoor employment
factory work · academic life · nine-to-five · industrial labor