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hockey

  • noun
  • hŏk′ē

Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into a goal.

Other meanings

  1. field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.

    “He helped his team beat the opponent at hockey 11-9 in a high-scoring match.”

  2. ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.

    “US stadiums are packed in the winter to see ice hockey.”

Synonyms

  • field hockey

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “hockey” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.