hockey
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- noun
- /ˈhɑːki/
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hockey
- "Let's just play some hockey, boys," he said, skating off with the puck.
- play hockey
- hockey players
- a hockey team
My family was a very motivated and sporty family so hockey was a big deal to us.
- My family was a very motivated and sporty family so hockey was a big deal to us.
- It was like football, baseball, like even to some degree, bowling, boxing, hockey, college basketball.
- Yeah, but so you did hockey at uni, right?
- Sports stadiums, basketball arenas and hockey arenas.
- I guarantee Todd or somebody knows played hockey, right?
- So with hockey, that became a passion of mine very early on.
- And it's very hockey culture forward.
- And then we go to hockey and we hadn't heard from her dad for a day and a bit.
- I knew my Forte was going to be hockey and growing up playing baseball, track and field lacrosse.
- She let her team in hockey with penalty minutes and points one year, she will slide.
- This is a big bloke playing lacrosse or whatever it is hockey running out of a stick.
- And then it's basically kind of hockey pucked back, if you will, or hockey stick back if you will.
- Like Espo's hockey game and I told him like he when he went to NYU.
- You going to do a Zamboni role for us around the hockey field, The hockey field that is your life?
Examples
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Played hockey with the boy.
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Charles takes Chip and his friends out to a hockey game.
Academic text (2013) -
If you start talking hockey to Steve, it's over.
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So with hockey, that became a passion of mine very early on.
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Hockey season ended months ago.
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Student-athletes must want to play hockey because of the coach, the school, and the opportunity to earn a college degree.
Academic text (2012) -
My family was a very motivated and sporty family so hockey was a big deal to us.
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Denver just started a new pee-wee hockey league.
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The Four Nations hockey tournament, which was arguably the greatest sports spectacle of the last year.
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My brother enjoys playing hockey every weekend with his friends on the local rink.
Compounds
- UK
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Two teams play on ice using sticks to move a small puck into the other team's goal
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A team sport played on grass where players use curved sticks to hit a small hard ball into a goal
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A team sport on ice where players use sticks to hit a puck into the other team's goal
- UK
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A flat round piece of hard rubber that players use instead of a ball in ice hockey
- Informal
A mild, funny phrase people say instead of swearing when surprised or angry
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hockey probably comes from an old French word for a hook, meaning 'crooked stick'. This helps explain the name: in both field and ice hockey players use curved, hook-like sticks to move a ball or puck, so the word matches the game.