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Hockey   /hˈɑki/   Listen
Hockey

noun
1.
A game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net.  Synonym: field hockey.
2.
A game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks.  Synonyms: hockey game, ice hockey.



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"Hockey" Quotes from Famous Books



... passing the time, there are baths to be had in the great brewery vats of the village, there is an inter-company hockey tournament to be played with a Tickler's jam tin in lieu of a ball, and, best of ...
— Mud and Khaki - Sketches from Flanders and France • Vernon Bartlett

... Lady Bountiful to the aged and sick on the estate, and led there the simple life of the German country maiden of the time. It was not the day of electric light and central heating and the telephone; hardly of lawn tennis, certainly not of golf and hockey; while motor-cars and militant suffragettes were alike unknown. Instead of these delights the Princess, as she then was, was content with the humdrum life of a German country mansion, with rare excursions ...
— William of Germany • Stanley Shaw

... her old classmates so effectively that she got down to business, made up her back work, and graduated reasonably well up in her entrance class. Of light build, and always frail in appearance, she did commendable work in school athletics. She took private instruction in hockey, for she was determined "to make the team," and her success in accomplishing this is significant of her ability to do, when she willed. At one of the later inter-scholastic games she met a handsome, manly, George Washington University ...
— Our Nervous Friends - Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness • Robert S. Carroll

... and some friends he makes crowd innumerable happenings into an exciting freshman year at one of the leading Eastern colleges. The book is typical of the American college boy's life, and there is a lively story, interwoven with feats on the gridiron, hockey, basketball and other clean, honest sports ...
— The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire - or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol • Herbert Carter



Words linked to "Hockey" :   hat trick, athletic game, check, face-off, winger, goalmouth, assist, shinny, stick, slapshot, contact sport, net, game misconduct, icing the puck, field game, penalty box, icing, shinney, power play, period, center



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