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they clack together two halves of split open coconuts to confuse the enemy
- Where'd they get the coconuts?
  
  A swallow could've carried it
  
  It's working!
  
  Corvids
- holy shit 6 legged bovine thing

Maybe they Naruto run while galloping
- That is absolute nightmare fuel. This image alone is enough reason to ban ai.
  
  Perfect
  
  Credit? You can have my upvote if this isn't "genAI".
  
  This but the kids from Weapons.
  
  ai slop
- Immediately what came to mind. It's gotta be this.

With the whole upper half bobbing up/down like a horse nodding it's head while it runs.
- By that description, I imagine a centaur walking like a chicken.
  It's my failure, not yours.
  I might need to make chicken-centaurs in my game. Comical at first until you realize they're raptors.
  
  oh no not a 4 legged, hooved, larger utahraptor
  does the horse part have fur and the raptor part have feathers or does one of them just take over the other?
- insert centaur baby meme

They hold a polearm. Always.
- or a bow
  
  Finally the correct answers have arrived
  
  Or my axe!

Hmm, humans swing their arms while running to counteract angular movement. Presumably, the horse undercarriage wouldn't have this problem, because there's more legs in an offset motion and just some distance between the pairs of legs to hold the body straight.
But horses nod their heads during gallop, so maybe the centaurs would do a little chug-chug motion with their arms instead.
- this is how centaurs are usually animated i think
- This is a great anwser, actually

Hold a shield and spear or somethin like that maybe?
- So you think centaurs are always going to fight someone? That's racist.
  
  I think, canonically, they're always going to rape someone.
  
  Ah nonono, thats just their sense of fashion. Both are actually made out of cardboard and they take great pride in the intricate ways that they paint them.
- That or prepare their bow and arrow

I have visual references

Spank the butt
- Futurama did it
- /thread

One hand scrolls through tiktok and the other holds an iced coffee, just like humans do while driving a car.

Naruto run.

They cross their arms since they also don't know what to do with them.
- maximum aura ngl
  
  no cap ong fr skibidi toilet Ohio gyatt
- Good answer

Does no one watch Xena anymore?

They shoot arrows with a bow?!

They shoot you with their bow.

They place them majestically on their hips, as if they're the captain of a boat.
- "HMS Centaur, coming through!"
  
  "Ow, you just elbowed me in the face, asshole!"
  "I SAID HMS CENTAUR COMING THROUGH!"

Just windmilling their fists like wrecking balls.

they hold them out in front of themselves like they’re holding motorcycle handlebars and they make the sounds with their mouth
- I know this is a thing in something I've seen. Greatest Estate Developer?
  
  you might have seen it in your history books when you were reading about ancient greece, cause they really did that.

This is the real reason centaurs are almost always drawn with bows and arrows. Not for horse archer vibes, so the artist had something to do with their hands.
- I was about to say, "Holding a bow and arrow"
  
  Glad we're all thinking along the same lines

they actually just bend down and use the human arms to help walk (more legs = faster, since less time without touching ground, more time propelling themselves forward)
- The human centipede is the world'a fastest animal.

Random, but I've just now realised centaurs can't shake hands with the milkman.
- ?
  
  (masturbation)

In all the media I've seen the arms basically just stay in place, half bent.
- In Krapopolis, they hold their arms half bent and move with the running motion, like a jogging human.
  edit: Wording clarification.

If you'd imagine how much something like a centaur would need to eat, they'd probably carry snacks.

I would be holding on to my dick and balls so they don't smack me in the asshole every gallop.
- How do horses solve that problem?
  
  The saddle apparatus has a cock holster to prevent chafing.
- I'd hold my hands like when you stick your hand out of the car window and surfs on the air.
  
  Like the centaurs in fantasia
- How?

"Humans can't run, what would they do with their arms?"
- Human legs and horse legs are very different
  
  Horses legs are mostly fingers.

Naruto running, all the time

They do the Choo Choo train with their arms.

They hold the reins.

This is why they're usually carrying a weapon. Not to fight, but so they won't feel awkward with their hands.

They hold crossbows.
- Two smaller ones, yes, while multiclassing as a rogue/ranger for multiple shots per turn.

Steam Deck.
- Damn that's cool

What do humans do with their arms when they are sprinting?
- They swing them in sync with the opposing leg.
  Centaurs have four.
  
  So they swing twice as fast according to project managers.

This is just another reminder how weird a centaur is as a concept. Vertebrates don't have more than 4 limbs. Land vertebrates mostly have 4 legs, but the structure of their forelegs is very similar to human arms and wrists. Bats have wings, but their wings are basically arms with a membrane of skin between the bones. Even a Naga (human / snake hybrid) makes more sense than a centaur.
Also, think how unbalanced a centaur would be. Instead of a trunk that merely has to support a neck and a head, a centaur has to support a full half-human right at the front of its body. That would shift the centre of mass way forward, so most of the weight would be on the middle limbs. That would affect its ability to gallop, because in a gallop most of the running power of a horse comes from the back legs. If the back legs are almost completely unloaded because all the weight is at the front, the back legs wouldn't be able to push with much force.
A more realistic centaur would have the trunk weight shifted backwards, so instead of having a human torso replacing its neck and head, it would be like a rider on a horse but without the rider's legs or the horse's head.
- A human torso’s weight would be almost inconsequential compared to a whole ass horse body, not to mention the human part has abs and shit and will be coordinating with the horse part, cause it’s all one creature. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a ridiculous creature, I just think it could theoretically work
- Fun fact, horse heads/necks weigh about as much as human torsos do. Depending on the horse, and the human.
  Modern horses are fuckin huge. It's not unreasonable to think that a horse body could support a human upper body without much additional musculature.
  
  That just raises the question about how big a human torso would be mounted on a modern horse's torso. A huge clydesdale mare with a typical jockey's torso would look pretty ridiculous. But, maybe a clydesdale-type-centaur would have an Andre-the-giant torso, or maybe something even bigger. Maybe it would be a humanoid torso which, if it had legs, would stand 4m tall.
  But, even if it is an Andre the Giant head, imagine how much grass he's going to have to eat to keep his body fed. Andre has a big mouth compared to me, but it's still small compared to a horse.

They use their arms to hold their tummies so their beer bellies don't flop around

I'm just imagining the human half doing like a naruto run.

That paddling thing that puppies do when you hold them above water.

Rubik's cube

Trex arms

Fists forward like Superman flying

maybe you can't stop thinking about it but I'm built different

Got me thinking of a centaur version of "West Side Story" and snapping their fingers while performing and dancing to "Cool."

The same thing as a human do when they sprint.
- But we move our hands for balance as we run, 4 legged animals don't need that. Also how would they time it with the movement of the legs?
  
  Well, they are half human so their human half’s genetic memory drives them to swing their arms unnecessarily
- Humans do this to balance our side-by-side walking method. But galloping horses have a foward-backward movement.
  Would the arms go do the running thing, but synchronized?