ice-hockey player
- noun
- /ˈaɪs ˈhɑːki ˈpleɪər/
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jugador de hockey sobre hielo
- From these two lines of argument, then, we would expect that professional ice hockey players would be more motivated when traded to a new team, and thus would try harder and play better than before they were traded.
- professional ice-hockey player
- male ice-hockey players
Examples
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She has always dreamed of being a professional ice hockey player and plays every weekend.
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This article presents analyses that show the effect of being traded during the season on the objectively measured performance of professional ice hockey players.
Academic text (1991) -
The results reported in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure I show the performance levels of professional ice hockey players before and after being traded.
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Even if Finnish women are internationally among the leading teams, the majority of ice hockey players are boys and men.
Academic text (2018) -
Twenty-eight male university ice hockey players participated in the second study (M age = 22.4).
Academic text (1992) -
The relationship between motivation and self-efficacy in swimmers, ice hockey players, and basketball players was examined in three separate field investigations.
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An ice hockey player who commits a foul and is taken out of the game to 'cool off' for a few minutes might thus actually return to the game primed to take offense to any hostile act.
Academic text (2002) -
The results reported here for the performance of experienced professional ice hockey players are very similar to those for major league baseball and add further support to the hypotheses drawn from motivation theory (Bateman et al., 1983).
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Although the potential for physical injury is a recognized threat for ice hockey players in certain situations (Dunn & Nielsen, 1993), these findings suggest that they certainly do not constitute the primary source of anxiety in the sport.
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Included among the female athletes interviewed were two runners (one, a 400-meter hurdler, the other a middle-distance/cross-country runner), as well as a basketball player, a softball player, and an ice hockey player.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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A person who plays hockey for fun or as a job
Surface Forms
Morphology
ice-hockey + player
The meaning is directly compositional: a sport name ('ice-hockey' / 'ice hockey') plus 'player' yields a person who plays that sport. This formation (sport-name + player) is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Ice-hockey player is a name made from the sport ice hockey and the word player. Imagine someone on skates with a stick and a puck racing across the ice; that's why it means 'a person who plays the sport'.