Hockey

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Ice hockey.
  • n. Field hockey.
  • n. Street hockey.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A variation of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, or shinny.
  • n. Variation of oche.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
  • n. The stick used by the players.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A game of ball played with a club curved at one end. Also called shinny, shinty.
  • n. The stick or club used in playing this game. Also called hockey-stick, hockey-club.
  • n. Harvest-home; the harvest-supper.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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
  • n. 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
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    hookey    hawkey   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bandy    bandy ball    shinny    Hurley    polo    shinny hockey    field hockey    ice hockey   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Araki    Hamasaki    Ibaraki    Iwaki    Jockey    Kawasaki    Miyazaki    Nagasaki    Okazaki    Rocky   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    soccer    volleyball    tennis    cricket    chess    polo    croquet    handball    archery    ski