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ice hockey
noun
- 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
- 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
Example Sentences
The family now keeps a blanket of his ice hockey jerseys, Matthew’s passion, as a remembrance of his life.
Even in those early years, he showed an independent streak, pursuing activities including oratory, carpentry and an unusually rough version of ice hockey.
In basketball, baseball and ice hockey, players born in the first quarter of their selection year — the cutoff for which age-group teams are picked, which is normally the school year — are overrepresented both in youth and professional sports.
He took her to Colorado Avalanche games and Colorado Rockies games when she was young, and when she was old enough to play ice hockey, Tom and Maggie went to every game.
He and his colleagues analyze data — numbers, really — on soccer, ice hockey and other team sports.
Costas returned on February 19, the day Finland beat Russia in men's ice hockey.
On Monday night, Luxuria intended to attend an ice hockey match in Olympic Stadium.
Oak Hall may be able to play football, but they don't know how to play ice hockey!
The object of the game is to score a goal through your opponents' goal posts as in ice hockey.
Instead of a ball the modern game of ice hockey is played with a rubber disk called a "puck."
A rubber-covered ball is used and the stick is heavier than that used in Ice Hockey.
The ordinary ice hockey stick will be satisfactory to play with.
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