Sulky Sulky A sulky is a lightweight cart having two wheels and a seat for the driver only but usually without a body, generally pulled by horses or dogs, and is used for harness races. The term is also used for a light stroller, an arch mounted on wheels or crawler tracks, used in logging, or other types of vehicle having wheels and usually a seat for the driver, such as a plough, lister or cultivator. A sulky for horses is a lightweight two-wheeled, single-seat cart that is used as a form of rural transport in many parts of the world.
Cart animal that pulls them, such as "horsecart" or "oxcart". In modern times, horsecarts are used in competition while draft horse showing. A "dogcart", however, is usually a cart designed to "carry" hunting dogs: an open cart with two cross-seats back to back; the dogs could be penned between the rear-facing seat and the back end. The term "cart" (synonymous in this sense with "chair") is also used for various kinds of lightweight, two-wheeled carriages, some of them "sprung carts" (or "spring carts"), especially those used as open pleasure or sporting vehicles. They could be drawn by a horse, pony or