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What does hockey mean?

Definitions in simple English

hockey Noun

— In North America, hockey means ice hockey which is 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. — In Europe, hockey means field hockey which is a game played on solid ground, in which teams score by shooting a ball in their opponent's net with a stick. — Hockey can also mean other forms of the game like roller hockey or street hockey.

hockey

— noun (= ice hockey) 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 — noun 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

Synonyms hockey synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as hockey?

hockey English » English

ice hockey field hockey puck hockey game street hockey stickwork polo khaki

Topics hockey topics

What do people use hockey to talk about?

Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports

What words refer to specific sports?

football soccer basketball tennis track track and field ping pong badminton baseball hockey ice hockey boxing wrestling running cricket golf gymnastics race

Examples hockey examples

How do I use hockey in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom likes hockey.

Tom made the hockey team.

I used to play hockey.

Tom wasn't a hockey fan.

We lost with Russia on Ice Hockey World Championship 2019.

Sometimes hockey players get so competitive that fights break out.

I don't like such sports as boxing and hockey.

How often does Tom play hockey?

Tom is a professional hockey player.

Tom plays hockey.

Do you still play hockey?

The boys set up a hockey rink on the frozen pond.

Finland eliminated Russia from the Winter Olympics hockey tournament.

The Canadian women's hockey team won the gold medal.

An ice hockey puck is not spherical.

Tom is watching the hockey game with his friends.

Canada is the motherland of ice hockey.

I'm on a hockey team.

The hockey referee intervened to stop the fight.

Who's your favorite hockey player?

The puck of ice hockey is not spherical.

Who's playing hockey tonight?

Field hockey is not very popular in China.

Movie subtitles

Sure, but Miss Shannon is no hockey player.

He was a professional ice-hockey player, very high scorer.

Between items 14 and 15 insert Canadian ice-hockey player.

There was a Canadian ice-hockey player and a banker from Brussels.

Canadian ice-hockey player Alpine guide, dimples.

When I was young, I used to play hockey.

And what about hockey?

Do you like hockey?

Hockey!

For our wedding anniversary I took her to the New York vs. Detroit hockey game.

Then we'll have a game of hockey.

Does Miss Brodie incite you to shirk your duties on the hockey field?

If she'd been properly brought up. she'd have been out on the hockey field, breathing deeply.

There's a hockey game on Friday.

Some were on the sports ground, practising their ice hockey skills.

TOMORROW WE'LL GO TO A HOCKEY GAM E, AND WE'LL GET SOME HOT DOGS IN THE PARK MAYBE.

Just make sure those brats don't hit you over the head with a hockey stick.

Now, you may be working at a football stadium, a baseball park, a hockey stadium.

Ice hockey.

What time's the hockey game start?

Hockey's my game. Ice hockey.

How much you wanna bet I make the hockey team?

Correction, please. Between items 14 and 15 insert Canadian ice-hockey player.

You've gone absolutely wild, even bought yourself a hockey stick.

About soccer. - Hockey.

Jitesh was a good hockey player.

Oil Where's my hockey stick?

News and current affairs

Jamaica, say, does not produce frozen salmon or hockey players because investing in industries such as citrus fruit and tourism provides far more certain profits.

The Czech players pointed their hockey sticks at the Russians like guns, and their victory provoked anti-Soviet riots back home.

The one gold medal we had become used to winning since the 1920's, in field hockey, has proved elusive in recent Games, as our players have stumbled on Astroturf.

This year, India's hockey players failed even to qualify for the Games.

India was historically strong at field hockey, winning almost all of the gold medals between 1928 and 1968, but, since the Games switched from grass to expensive synthetic turf, the Indians have won just one field hockey medal.

In May 2008, Russia won the world hockey championship, beating Canada.

In Russia, you get asked for your autograph if you are a proper hero: an ice-hockey player, a cosmonaut, a high-society prostitute, or, like Lugovoi, an executioner.

Hockey stick curves often occur in nature.

Exponential growth at a fixed percentage rate can look like a hockey stick.

The economic impact of such an exponential growth path, starting from small beginnings and viewed over decades, will certainly look like one very large hockey stick.

But that is because computers started from small beginnings, so that we have up to now only been on the flat part of the hockey stick.

Perhaps the best example of this type of sporting nationalism was not a football game, but the world ice hockey final in 1969, when Czechoslovakia beat the Soviet Union just one year after Soviet tanks rolled into Prague.

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