ice hockey

noun

1. a game played on ice between two teams of six skaters each, the object being to score goals by shooting a puck into the opponents' cage using a stick with a wooden blade set at an obtuse angle to the shaft.

ice hockey

noun

1. a game played on ice by two opposing teams of six players each, who wear skates and try to propel a flat puck into their opponents' goal with long sticks having an offset flat blade at the end

Word History and Origins

Origin of ice hockey¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

He was also instrumental, he says, in getting a major ice hockey tournament relocated from Belarus, depriving Alexander Lukashenko of a prestigious international event and his favourite sport.

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And two years later, North and South fielded a joint women’s ice hockey team at the Winter Games in the South.

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A man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of ice hockey player Adam Johnson has had his bail extended again.

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What happened to American Johnson was a big enough wake-up call to Bjorkung of the dangers of ice hockey.

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By the time the buzzer rang at Montreal's Bell Centre, sports history had been made: a record 21,105 people had attended a professional women's ice hockey game.

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